{"id":403108,"date":"2026-07-18T03:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/403108\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T03:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:47:15","slug":"nneka-ogwumike-becomes-sparks-all-time-scoring-leader-in-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/403108\/","title":{"rendered":"Nneka Ogwumike becomes Sparks’ all-time scoring leader in loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CHICAGO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Sydney Taylor<\/a> hit four three-pointers and scored 19 points and the Chicago Sky beat the Sparks 96-82<\/a> on Friday night as Nneka Ogwumike<\/a> became the Sparks<\/a>\u2019 career scoring leader.<\/p>\n

Ogwumike finished with 18 points and has 7,703 career points. She had 12 rebounds, moving past Candace Parker<\/a> (3,467) into third on the WNBA\u2019s career rebounds list with 3,472.<\/p>\n

Kamilla Cardoso<\/a> had 13 points, 11 rebounds and two blocks for Chicago (7-16). Natasha Cloud had 15 points and nine rebounds, Jacy Sheldon added 14 points and Azura Stevens scored 12 points.<\/p>\n

Dearica Hamby<\/a> also scored 18 points for the Sparks (10-14) and Erica Wheeler added 14. The Sparks have lost three consecutive games.<\/p>\n

Ogwumike scored 23 points Wednesday night in a 96-87 loss at Minnesota to tie the mark of 6,263 points set by Lisa Leslie. She hit a short jumper about three minutes into the game Friday to break the record.<\/p>\n

Picked No. 1 overall by the Sparks in 2012, Ogwumike, 36, returned to Los Angeles this season after spending the last two with Seattle.<\/p>\n

Kelsey Plum (leg) did not play for the Sparks.<\/p>\n

Chicago\u2019s Skylar Diggins (knee) missed her fifth consecutive game.<\/p>\n

The Sparks beat the Sky 102-77 at home last Friday.<\/p>\n

Up next for the Sparks: at Dallas on Sunday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Sydney Taylor hit four three-pointers and scored 19 points and the Chicago Sky beat the Sparks 96-82 on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49416,161693,49380,4419,28404,161692,130069,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,3289,4226,133020,1417,7556,161694,87217],"class_list":["post-403108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-all-time-scoring-leader","tag-azura-stevens","tag-career-point","tag-chicago","tag-consecutive-game","tag-jacy-sheldon","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-times","tag-loss","tag-minnesota","tag-nneka-ogwumike","tag-point","tag-rebound","tag-skylar-diggins","tag-sparks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403108","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=403108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}