{"id":136050,"date":"2025-06-30T07:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T07:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/136050\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T07:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T07:23:10","slug":"seattle-storm-suffer-blowout-84-57-loss-to-valkyries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/136050\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Storm suffer blowout 84-57 loss to Valkyries"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Tiffany Hayes scored 21 points, Veronica Burton contributed 15 points, five rebounds and five assists, and the Golden State Valkyries ran away from the Seattle Storm for a 84-57 victory Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Golden State Valkyries 84, Seattle Storm 57: Box score<\/a><\/p>\n

Valkyries leading scorer Kayla Thornton headed to the locker room at the 9:22 mark of the third quarter appearing to hold her neck, and the team said she was undergoing further evaluation without providing details of the injury. She shot 1 for 9 and missed all five of her 3-point tries, held to two points while grabbing five rebounds. Her teammates picked up the slack \u2014 on both ends of the floor.<\/p>\n

Skylar Diggins had 18 points, six assists and five rebounds for Seattle, which came in leading the league in field-goal percentage at 47.0% but was limited to a season-low 27% (20 for 74) by the stingy Golden State defense. The Storm had only been held below 40% once, shooting 33.3% in the season opener at Phoenix on May 17.<\/p>\n

Laeticia Amihere added 15 points and eight rebounds as the Valkyries jumped out to a quick 7-0 lead before Nneka Ogwumike\u2019s shot at the 6:58 mark and made five of their first eight shots for a 13-4 advantage.<\/p>\n

Ogwumike, who starred at nearby Stanford, finished with eight points on 3-of-10 shooting and seven rebounds. The Storm had won four of five.<\/p>\n

Both teams struggled from 3-point range \u2014 Seattle went 6 of 28 and the Valkyries 8 of 27.<\/p>\n

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Golden State center Temi F\u00e1gb\u00e9nl\u00e9 played 20 minutes after resting for two games upon returning from a brief absence to play for Great Britain in the EuroBasket 2025 tournament.<\/p>\n

The game attracted some famous fans among the sellout crowd of 18,064 \u2014 Golden State\u2019s 10th in as many home games at Chase Center \u2014 including Warriors two-time NBA MVP Stephen Curry, South Carolina women\u2019s coach Dawn Staley, former Storm and U.S. star Sue Bird and U.S. soccer great Megan Rapinoe.<\/p>\n

Valkyries guard Carla Leite missed her fourth straight game with a back injury.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Seattle goes on a three-game East Coast trip beginning Thursday at Atlanta. The Valkyries play at Minnesota on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Seattle Storm\u2019s Nneka Ogwumike wins player of the week award<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Tiffany Hayes scored 21 points, Veronica Burton contributed 15 points, five rebounds and five…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,479,164,4025,4024,1515,5335,5333,6,66,5334,2652,255,2653],"class_list":{"0":"post-136050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golden-state-warriors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-golden-state","10":"tag-golden-state-warriors","11":"tag-goldenstate","12":"tag-goldenstatewarriors","13":"tag-home","14":"tag-mynorthwest-com","15":"tag-mynorthwest-com-seattle-news","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-talk-and-community","19":"tag-traffic","20":"tag-warriors","21":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114771119641136111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}