{"id":432633,"date":"2026-08-14T08:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432633\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T08:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:40:13","slug":"burrell-leads-los-angeles-against-washington-after-28-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432633\/","title":{"rendered":"Burrell leads Los Angeles against Washington after 28-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Sparks<\/a> (12-21, 7-11 Western Conference) at Washington Mystics<\/a> (19-14, 10-5 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Washington; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles Sparks faces the Washington Mystics after Rae Burrell<\/a> scored 28 points in the Sparks’ 85-81 loss to the New York Liberty<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Mystics are 11-6 on their home court. Washington has a 6-2 record in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n

The Sparks are 7-10 on the road. Los Angeles is fourth in the WNBA<\/a> scoring 41.5 points per game in the paint led by Dearica Hamby<\/a> averaging 11.3.<\/p>\n

Washington scores 81.7 points per game, 11.7 fewer points than the 93.4 Los Angeles gives up. Los Angeles averages 8.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.2 more makes per game than Washington gives up.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the second time this season. In the last meeting on May 29 the Sparks won 92-87 led by 21 points from Erica Wheeler<\/a>, while Shakira Austin<\/a> scored 25 points for the Mystics.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Austin is averaging 16.7 points and 9.5 rebounds for the Mystics. Sonia Citron<\/a> is averaging 16.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Burrell is averaging 13.9 points for the Sparks. Hamby is averaging 17.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Mystics: 7-3, averaging 85.4 points, 38.5 rebounds, 19.7 assists, 5.1 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 46.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 82.4 points per game.<\/p>\n

Sparks: 2-8, averaging 88.4 points, 32.1 rebounds, 25.0 assists, 7.2 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 47.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 92.6 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Mystics: Betnijah Laney-Hamilton<\/a>: day to day (personal).<\/p>\n

Sparks: Monique Akoa Makani: out (ankle), Cameron Brink: day to day (ribs).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Sparks (12-21, 7-11 Western Conference) at Washington Mystics (19-14, 10-5 Eastern Conference) Washington; Saturday, 7:30 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[171837,133773,130073,80631,48,52,51,47,50,49,115424,126714,139688,171836,115829,133122],"class_list":["post-432633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-betnijah-laney-hamilton","tag-dearica-hamby","tag-erica-wheeler","tag-event_preview","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-sparks","tag-rae-burrell","tag-shakira-austin","tag-sonia-citron","tag-washington-mystics","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432633","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=432633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}