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Liatu King

F · 5′11″ · Current team: Minnesota Lynx

Regular season · Sep 22, 2026 · MIN 77 @ IND 96 · Final

Liatu King 12 points vs Fever (Sep 22, 2026)

ANSWER

12 PTS · 4-of-8 FG · 0-of-2 3P · 4-of-5 FT · 20:06 MIN

Usual before this game: 2.8 PTS · 1.8 FGA · 7.6 MIN, from 10 regular-season games

Game Score 14.0 against a usual 2.3 (+11.7)

SURPRISE SCORE
98Rare
above usual

No more than 2 in 100 games by players at this level finish this far above their usual.

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

How the score works

Why did Liatu King score 12 points?

In 20:06 against the Fever on Sep 22, 2026, Liatu King scored 12 points: 4-of-8 from the field, 0-of-2 from three, 4-of-5 on free throws (80.0%). Coming in, King had averaged 2.8 points on 1.8 shots in 7.6 minutes, from 10 regular-season games. Shot attempts: 8, against a usual 1.8. By shot type: two-pointers 8 points (usual 1.8); free throws 4 points (usual 0.4). Minutes: 20:06, against a usual 7.6; Game Score per 36 minutes: 25.1, against a usual 11.0. King had 3 steals and 0 blocks, against a usual 0.3 and 0.4. At the Fever, the Lynx lost 96-77. 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

King in this game against the usual line

This game against the usual line
StatThis gameUsual (10 games)Change
Minutes20:067.6+12.5
Points122.8+9.2
Shots (FGA) · FG%4-of-81.8 · 61.1%+6.2
3PA · 3P%0-of-20.6 · 33.3%+1.4
FTA · FT%5 · 80.0%1.0 · 40.0%+4.0 · +40.0
Rebounds42.3+1.7
Assists20.0+2.0
Turnovers00.5-0.5
UsageUsual: minutes-weighted average of per-game usage, 9 games21.416.1+5.3
Game Score per 36 minutes25.111.0+14.1
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 (10 games)Change
Threes0 (0-of-2)0.6 (0.2-of-0.6)-0.6
Twos8 (4-of-6)1.8 (0.9-of-1.2)+6.2
Free throws4 (4-of-5)0.4 (0.4-of-1.0)+3.6
Total122.8+9.2
03

Game Score

One measure of the whole box score line

14.0 against a usual 2.3 (+11.7)

Its five parts
The change in Game Score, by part
PartChange
Scoring, net of shot attempts+5.9
Rebounds+1.0
Assists+1.4
Steals and blocks+2.4
Turnovers and fouls+1.0
Total+11.7
04

Season so far

Regular season, in date order

Game Score in each game this season, oldest first, this game last: 8.8, 0, 2.6, -0.6, 3.4, -0.8, 7.1, -0.8, 1.7, 1.7, 14

No rank yet: too few earlier games this season.

05

Context

From the rows this page already reads

  • The Lynx lost 96-77 at the Fever.
  • Previous appearance: Sep 20, 2026, 2 days earlier.
  • No earlier regular-season meetings with the Fever 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.