{"id":64482,"date":"2025-08-12T17:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/64482\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T17:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:29:07","slug":"wings-receive-tough-arike-ogunbowale-news-before-fever-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/64482\/","title":{"rendered":"Wings receive tough Arike Ogunbowale news before Fever showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As injuries continue to affect both teams, the Dallas Wings host the Indiana Fever on Tuesday night in a game that could see both sides missing some firepower.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana remains without Caitlin Clark, whose right groin injury will render her unavailable for the 11th consecutive game. For Dallas, star rookie Paige Bueckers will play through nagging <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/wnba\/news\/wings-paige-bueckers-reveals-injury-status-rematch-liberty\/335fa1248633869fb4786435\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">back tightness<\/a>, and forward Myisha Hines-Allen will be available despite a left ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p>Arike Ogunbowale though is questionable with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GrantAfseth\/status\/1955305021119078670\" rel=\"nofollow\">right knee soreness<\/a>, and she did not participate in shootaround in advance of the 6:30 p.m. Central tip-off.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/wnba\/news\/wings-make-arike-ogunbowale-decision-wnba-trade-deadline\/14e05d96e1257f097205d821\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wings make Arike Ogunbowale decision before WNBA trade deadline\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ogunbowale has missed three games this season with a thumb injury, and the possible right knee injury could cost the Wings their second-leading scorer against the Fever.<\/p>\n<p>Although Ogunbowale has endured a difficult season with career lows in points per game, field goal percentage and 3-point percentage, the four-time All-Star is still among the top 20 scorers in the league at 15.5 points per night.<\/p>\n<p>However, during Dallas&#8217; current five-game slide, Ogunbowale is averaging just 12.6 points on 33 percent shooting. With the 44-game season beginning to wind down, the Wings (8-24) could begin to exercise caution with one of its franchise players.<\/p>\n<p>MORE WNBA NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As injuries continue to affect both teams, the Dallas Wings host the Indiana Fever on Tuesday night in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-64482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64482","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=64482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}