{"id":937148,"date":"2026-07-15T19:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/937148\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T19:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:04:15","slug":"azura-stevens-leads-chicago-sky-past-seattle-storm-95-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/937148\/","title":{"rendered":"Azur\u00e1 Stevens leads Chicago Sky past Seattle Storm 95-90"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Azur\u00e1 Stevens scored 18 of her 20 points in the first half, Sydney Taylor added 17 points and the Chicago Sky beat the Seattle Storm 95-90 on Wednesday at Wintrust Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The Sky led 86-75 with 6:24 left in the fourth quarter before Seattle went on a 9-0 run, capped by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WNBA\/status\/2077450058681729226\" rel=\"nofollow\">Flau\u2019jae Johnson\u2019s 3-pointer<\/a> to get within two points. But that\u2019s as close as the Storm would get.<\/p>\n<p>Courtney Vandersloot dribbled down the clock and found Stevens in the paint for her first points of the second half with 26.5 seconds left to give the Sky a 93-88 lead. Natasha Cloud sealed it at the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p>Chloe Bibby had 14 points in her first appearance of the season for the Sky (8-16), who led by as many as 14 points in the second half. Cloud had 13 points and six assists, and Gabriela Jaquez scored 10.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson led Seattle (6-20) with 25 points. Dominique Malonga had 16 points and 12 rebounds, and Awa Fam scored 14. The Storm struggled from the free-throw line, going 14 of 23 (61%).<\/p>\n<p>Seattle\u2019s last lead was 10-9 with 5:52 left in the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Storm:<\/strong> At the Indiana Fever on Friday.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sky:<\/strong> Host the Los Angeles Sparks on Friday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Azur\u00e1 Stevens scored 18 of her 20 points in the first half, Sydney Taylor added 17 points and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":937149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[9777,960,1497,17268,5386,1818,19713,1494,39496],"class_list":["post-937148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-azura-stevens","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-sky","tag-chloe-bibby","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-natasha-cloud","tag-seattle-storm","tag-wintrust-arena"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116925554255302006","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937148","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=937148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}