{"id":595011,"date":"2026-04-10T15:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/595011\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:25:07","slug":"10-time-wnba-all-star-nneka-ogwumike-returning-to-sparks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/595011\/","title":{"rendered":"10-time WNBA All-Star Nneka Ogwumike returning to Sparks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Ten-time WNBA All-Star and 2016 MVP <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/1068\/nneka-ogwumike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nneka Ogwumike<\/a> intends to rejoin the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/la\/los-angeles-sparks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Sparks<\/a>, her sister Chiney Ogwumike posted on social media on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Nneka Ogwumike previously played 12 seasons in Los Angeles and &#8220;is looking forward to returning home,&#8221; Chiney wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Nneka Ogwumike spent the past two seasons with the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/sea\/seattle-storm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Storm<\/a>, only the second stop of her decorated WNBA career, where she averaged 18.3 points, 7.0 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.1 steals in 2025. The Storm finished seventh in the league standings before exiting the playoffs in the first round courtesy of the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/lv\/las-vegas-aces\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Las Vegas Aces<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 6-foot-2 forward has been a force in the league since she was drafted No. 1 overall in 2012 by the Sparks, earning 10 All-Star bids, eight all-WNBA and seven all-defensive team selections. She also secured MVP in 2016, the same year she led the Sparks to their third WNBA championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Earlier this season the former Stanford standout led the Women&#8217;s National Basketball Players Association &#8212; where she has served as president since 2016 &#8212; to a deal for a new collective bargaining agreement with the WNBA.br\/]<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten-time WNBA All-Star and 2016 MVP Nneka Ogwumike intends to rejoin the Los Angeles Sparks, her sister Chiney&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[225948,49,48,1161,191477,632,44,182008,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-595011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-225948","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-espn","12":"tag-espnw","13":"tag-los-angeles-sparks","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-ogwumike-nneka","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}