New York Liberty (8-4, 5-0 Eastern Conference) at Atlanta Dream (8-3, 3-1 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
College Park, Georgia; Thursday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Atlanta Dream will try to keep its four-game home win streak intact when the Dream play New York Liberty.<\/p>\n
The Dream are 3-1 against Eastern Conference opponents. Atlanta ranks fifth in the WNBA with 40.2 points in the paint led by Allisha Gray averaging 8.5.<\/p>\n
The Liberty are 5-0 against Eastern Conference teams. New York is third in the Eastern Conference scoring 87.3 points per game and is shooting 45.1%.<\/p>\n
Atlanta is shooting 43.4% from the field this season, 0.9 percentage points higher than the 42.5% New York allows to opponents. New York has shot at a 45.1% rate from the field this season, 0.4 percentage points below the 45.5% shooting opponents of Atlanta have averaged.<\/p>\n
The matchup Thursday is the first meeting this season for the two teams.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Rhyne Howard is shooting 41.6% and averaging 17.9 points for the Dream. Gray is averaging 18.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Breanna Stewart is averaging 20.5 points, 8.6 rebounds and 1.5 steals for the Liberty. Marine Johannes is averaging 2.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Dream: 7-3, averaging 84.9 points, 36.1 rebounds, 19.2 assists, 9.4 steals and 2.6 blocks per game while shooting 43.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 77.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
Liberty: 6-4, averaging 84.4 points, 36.2 rebounds, 20.5 assists, 5.8 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 44.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 81.8 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Dream: Brionna Jones: out (knee).<\/p>\n
Liberty: Sabrina Ionescu: day to day (back), Jonquel Jones: day to day (illness).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Liberty (8-4, 5-0 Eastern Conference) at Atlanta Dream (8-3, 3-1 Eastern Conference) College Park, Georgia; Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":535580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[1522,5229,5356,1503,5336,2598,2338,70253,6326,405,403,1520,5226,5225,5228,5227,1521,15534,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,232,22795],"class_list":["post-857029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-allisha-gray","tag-america","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-breanna-stewart","tag-brionna-jones","tag-jonquel-jones","tag-marine-johannes","tag-nba-basketball","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-rhyne-howard","tag-sabrina-ionescu","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-basketball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116724797707143806","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}