COLLEGE PARK, Ga. \u2014 Angel Reese broke a\u00a0WNBA\u00a0record with her 29th double-double this season, Allisha Gray made six 3-pointers and finished with 23 points and 11 rebounds, and Atlanta beat league-leading Minnesota in its last game before the FIBA World Cup break.<\/p>\n
Reese, who has already set records this year for\u00a0rebounds in a season and a game, had 15 points and 11 rebounds to surpass Alyssa Thomas\u2019 record of 28 double-doubles, set in 2023.<\/p>\n
Minnesota (31-9), which had its eight-game road win streak snapped, has a 2 1\/2-game lead over second-place Golden State. Atlanta (26-14) moved into a tie with Indiana for fourth.<\/p>\n
Jordin Canada added 16 points and 10 assists for the Dream, and Rhyne Howard scored 12 of her 16 points in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
LOS ANGELES \u2014 Nneka Ogwumike had 23 points and 12 rebounds, Rae Burrell scored 22 points, and the Los Angeles Sparks beat the Seattle Storm 90-74 on Sunday in their final game before the FIBA World Cup break.<\/p>\n
LA scored the first 13 points in an opening 18-2 run and Dearica Hamby\u2019s layup with 5:45 left in the first half capped an 11-0 spurt that gave the Sparks a 39-20 lead. Seattle shot 32% (12 of 38) from the field and 2 of 11 (18%) from behind the arc before going into halftime trailing by 19. The Storm were just as bad from 3-point range in the second half, finishing 4 of 22.<\/p>\n
Cameron Brink had 11 points on 3-of-15 shooting for the Sparks (15-25).<\/p>\n
Flau\u2019jae Johnson scored 11 of her 19 points in the fourth quarter and Dominique Malonga had 17 points, on 8-of-21 shooting, and 15 rebounds for the Storm (8-32). Zia Cooke made 6 of 17 from the field for 14 points.<\/p>\n
PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 Tiffany Hayes scored 18 points, Kayla Thornton added 17 and the Golden State Valkyries beat the Portland Fire 86-69 on Sunday in their final game before the FIBA World Cup break.<\/p>\n
The Valkyries (29-11) pulled within two games of WNBA-leading Minnesota. Golden State has four games remaining and its opponents (Portland twice, Seattle and Los Angeles) have a winning percentage of .325 (39-81).<\/p>\n
The Lynx, who won the season series 2-1 and hold the playoff tiebreaker, play New York and Connecticut before back-to-back games against Indiana and Caitlin Clark \u2014 those teams are a combined 60-59 (.504) \u2014 to close the season.<\/p>\n
Kaitlyn Chen had 15 points for Golden State. Veronica Burton and Kaila Charles each scored 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE PARK, Ga. \u2014 Angel Reese broke a\u00a0WNBA\u00a0record with her 29th double-double this season, Allisha Gray made six…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-877678","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\/877678","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=877678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}