The New York Liberty will aim for a four-game, season-series sweep of the Golden State Valkyries when teams jockeying for position in the playoff race go head-to-head Tuesday night in San Francisco.

In a matchup of the defending WNBA champions against an expansion club, the Liberty have had their hands full in the two most recent head-to-heads after New York won a 95-67 blowout in the initial encounter at home in May.

Two days later, the Liberty needed to score the final six points -- two by Breanna Stewart, the other four by Natasha Cloud -- to escape with an 82-77 victory in a rematch in New York. Then, Sabrina Ionescu scored seven of the game's last 10 points over the final 1:48 to rally the Liberty to an 81-78 triumph in San Francisco in June.

A Bay Area native, Ionescu's game-savin

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