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Betnijah Laney-Hamilton

SG · 6′0″ · Current team: Washington Mystics

Regular season · Jul 7, 2026 · DAL 88 @ NYL 77 · Final

Betnijah Laney-Hamilton 0 points on 0-of-5 vs Wings (Jul 7, 2026)

ANSWER

0 PTS · 0-of-5 FG · 0-of-1 3P · 14:36 MIN

Usual before this game: 4.8 PTS · 4.0 FGA · 16.8 MIN, from 13 regular-season games

Game Score -3.6 against a usual 2.4 (-6.0)

SURPRISE SCORE
96Unusual
below usual

No more than 4 in 100 games by players at this level finish this far below their usual.

For a player who plays every game, a game this far below the usual comes about once or twice a season.

How the score works

Why did Betnijah Laney-Hamilton score 0 points?

In 14:36 against the Wings on Jul 7, 2026, Betnijah Laney-Hamilton scored 0 points: 0-of-5 from the field, 0-of-1 from three, no free throw attempts. Coming in, Laney-Hamilton had averaged 4.8 points on 4.0 shots in 16.8 minutes, from 13 regular-season games. By shot type: threes 0 points (usual 2.1); two-pointers 0 points (usual 1.4); free throws 0 points (usual 1.3). Playing time was 14:36, against a usual 16.8 minutes. At home against the Wings, the Liberty lost 88-77. The box score records what changed, not why: it holds no injury, matchup or coaching information.

Generated from the box score and this season's game log. How the score works

01

What changed

Laney-Hamilton in this game against the usual line

This game against the usual line
StatThis gameUsual (13 games)Change
Minutes14:3616.8-2.2
Points04.8-4.8
Shots (FGA) · FG%0-of-54.0 · 34.6%+1.0
3PA · 3P%0-of-12.4 · 29.0%-1.4
FTA · FT%0-of-01.7 · 77.3%-1.7
Rebounds02.1-2.1
Assists11.4-0.4
Turnovers01.5-1.5
UsageUsual: minutes-weighted average of per-game usage, 13 games15.517.0-1.5
02

Points by shot type

Twos, threes and free throws: the changes add up to the points change

Points by shot type against the usual line
Shot typeThis gameUsual (13 games)Change
Threes0 (0-of-1)2.1 (0.7-of-2.4)-2.1
Twos0 (0-of-4)1.4 (0.7-of-1.6)-1.4
Free throws0 (0-of-0)1.3 (1.3-of-1.7)-1.3
Total04.8-4.8
03

Game Score

One measure of the whole box score line

-3.6 against a usual 2.4 (-6.0)

Its five parts
The change in Game Score, by part
PartChange
Scoring, net of shot attempts-5.9
Rebounds-0.7
Assists-0.3
Steals and blocks-0.5
Turnovers and fouls+1.4
Total-6.0
04

Season so far

Regular season, in date order

Game Score in each game this season, oldest first, this game last: 3.5, 4.9, 7.6, 5.5, 12.5, -0.4, -2.2, 4.1, 0.6, 1.4, -2.6, -2.8, -1.1, -3.6

No rank yet: too few earlier games this season.

05

Context

From the rows this page already reads

  • The Liberty lost 88-77 at home against the Wings.
  • Previous appearance: Jun 28, 2026, 9 days earlier.
  • No earlier regular-season meetings with the Wings this season.
06

What this page cannot tell you

The same on every performance page

Limits

Box scores record what happened, not why: no injuries or health, defensive assignments, matchups, coaching decisions or play-by-play.

METHOD

Game Score against the player's own usual line. How rare a gap is comes from WNBA regular-season games of 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, checked on 2026.