Los Angeles Sparks (10-14, 3-10 Western Conference) at New York Liberty (17-6, 10-2 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
New York; Saturday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles Sparks takes on the New York Liberty after Kelsey Plum scored 30 points in the Sparks’ 101-86 victory against the Connecticut Sun.<\/p>\n
The Liberty are 12-2 in home games. New York is sixth in the WNBA with 35.2 points in the paint led by Breanna Stewart averaging 11.2.<\/p>\n
The Sparks are 7-6 on the road. Los Angeles is third in the WNBA scoring 84.4 points per game while shooting 45.6%.<\/p>\n
New York averages 10.1 made 3-pointers per game, 1.0 more made shot than the 9.1 per game Los Angeles gives up. Los Angeles has shot at a 45.6% clip from the field this season, 4.4 percentage points greater than the 41.2% shooting opponents of New York have averaged.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the second time this season. The Liberty won 89-79 in the last matchup on July 3.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Stewart is averaging 19 points, 6.8 rebounds, four assists and 1.5 steals for the Liberty. Sabrina Ionescu is averaging 17.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Dearica Hamby is scoring 17.6 points per game and averaging 7.9 rebounds for the Sparks. Azura Stevens is averaging 2.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Liberty: 7-3, averaging 86.3 points, 33.5 rebounds, 21.7 assists, 8.1 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 43.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 81.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
Sparks: 6-4, averaging 89.1 points, 32.3 rebounds, 22.6 assists, 7.1 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 49.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 87.1 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Liberty: None listed.<\/p>\n
Sparks: None listed.<\/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 Copyright \u00a9 2025 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Sparks (10-14, 3-10 Western Conference) at New York Liberty (17-6, 10-2 Eastern Conference) New York; Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[61965,5229,5723,1488,405,403,1520,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-93717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-61965","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-espn","11":"tag-los-angeles-sparks","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-liberty","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114918795789997528","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93717","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=93717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}