Jewell Loyd ties WNBA record with 9 3s, but Mystics top Storm 93-86
Jul 11, 2023, 6:30 PM | Updated: 7:07 pm
Jewell Loyd of the Seattle Storm during a game against the Las Vegas Aces. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
(Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Brittney Sykes scored 26 points and the short-handed Washington Mystics beat the Seattle Storm 93-86 Tuesday night despite a record-tying nine 3-pointers from Jewell Loyd.
Washington Mystics 93, Seattle Storm 86: Box score
The Mystics, who won two games in Seattle by seven and six points, led by 25 late in the third quarter and 84-67 near the midpoint of the fourth.
Loyd, who left the Storm’s last game with an ankle injury on Saturday, hit four of her 3-pointers after that.
9 three-pointers made (9-16, 3PM) ✔
39 PTS, 4 REB, 3 AST ✔
Season-high ✔
Career-high ✔
Most made threes in a #WNBA game this szn ✔@jewellloyd went awfff ‼ #MoreThanGame pic.twitter.com/Fes1Biu4Rg— WNBA (@WNBA) July 12, 2023
The Storm got it down to a two possession game with less than three minutes to go, but Sykes made back-to-back baskets, converting the second into a three-point play, and the Mystics closed it out.
Washington let the shot clock run out on its final possession but Loyd’s attempt at breaking the WNBA 3-point record for a game bounced off the rim as time expired. Kelsey Mitchell hit nine 3s for Indiana in 2019. Loyd finished with 39 points.
Shatori Walker-Kimbrough had 16 points off the bench for the Mystics (11-8), helping make up for the absence of all-star Elena Delle Donne and two other injured starters. Although Natasha Cloud returned after missing a couple games with an ankle sprain, Ariel Atkins, coming off her first career double-double, left with a sprained ankle in the second quarter. Tianna Hawkins scored 13.
Loyd was 9 of 16 behind the arc to hit 30 points for the sixth time this season. Loyd has two games with eight 3-pointers, including one earlier this season.
Dulcy Fankam Mendjiadeu had 12 points and 11 rebounds and Erzi Magbegor 12 and 9 for Seattle (4-15), which has lost six straight and 8 of 9. Rookie Jordan Horston left with a should injury in the second quarter.
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