{"id":349248,"date":"2026-06-06T07:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/349248\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T07:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:43:13","slug":"los-angeles-faces-portland-on-3-game-home-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/349248\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles faces Portland on 3-game home slide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland Fire<\/a> (6-6, 0-2 Western Conference) at Los Angeles Sparks<\/a> (4-6, 2-3 Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Los Angeles<\/a>; Sunday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles Sparks aims to stop its three-game home slide with a victory over Portland Fire.<\/p>\n

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The Sparks have gone 2-3 against Western Conference teams. Los Angeles gives up 93.0 points and has been outscored by 4.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Fire are 0-2 against Western Conference opponents. Portland has a 3-5 record in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles makes 47.7% of its shots from the field this season, which is 2.0 percentage points higher than Portland has allowed to its opponents (45.7%). Portland averages 82.1 points per game, 10.9 fewer points than the 93.0 Los Angeles allows to opponents.<\/p>\n

The matchup Sunday is the first meeting this season between the two teams.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Nneka Ogwumike<\/a> is averaging 15 points and 7.7 rebounds for the Sparks. Kelsey Plum<\/a> is averaging 26.9 points and 1.9 rebounds while shooting 59.5%.<\/p>\n

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Bridget Carleton<\/a> is averaging 13.9 points and two steals for the Fire. Megan Gustafson<\/a> is averaging 10.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Sparks: 4-6, averaging 88.7 points, 29.3 rebounds, 20.2 assists, 7.4 steals and 2.8 blocks per game while shooting 47.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 93.0 points per game.<\/p>\n

Fire: 5-5, averaging 80.4 points, 28.1 rebounds, 19.3 assists, 7.3 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 45.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 83.0 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Sparks: None listed.<\/p>\n

Fire: Karlie Samuelson: day to day (foot).<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Fire (6-6, 0-2 Western Conference) at Los Angeles Sparks (4-6, 2-3 Western Conference) Los Angeles; Sunday, 7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[142906,130069,48,52,51,47,50,49,115424,142907,133020,21125,131484,141651,2498],"class_list":["post-349248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bridget-carleton","tag-kelsey-plum","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-sparks","tag-megan-gustafson","tag-nneka-ogwumike","tag-points-per-game","tag-portland-fire","tag-the-sparks","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}