{"id":305479,"date":"2026-05-23T03:16:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/305479\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T03:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:16:26","slug":"atlanta-dream-top-dallas-wings-86-69-behind-rhyne-howards-25-point-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/305479\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Dream top Dallas Wings 86-69 behind Rhyne Howard&#8217;s 25\u2011point night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rhyne Howard had 25 points and eight assists as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/atlanta-dream\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Atlanta Dream<\/a> started fast and finished strong to defeat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/dallas-wings\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dallas Wings<\/a> 86\u201369 on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Dream (3-1) raced to a 16\u20133 lead to open the game. The Wings (3-3) clawed back and took their only lead, 64-63, with 7:35 to play, but Atlanta closed with a 23-5 flourish.<\/p>\n<p>Allisha Gray had 16 points, and Angel Reese had 15 points and nine rebounds for Atlanta. Howard had missed the previous game while in the concussion protocol.<\/p>\n<p>Wings struggle to find rhythm<\/p>\n<p>Awak Kuler had 16 points off the bench to lead Dallas. Odyssey Sims had 14, and Jessica Shepard had 10. Paige Bueckers, who averages 20.8 points, was held to 7 points, and Arike Ogunbowale had 2, 15 below her average. Bueckers and Ogumbowale combined to shoot 4 of 24.<\/p>\n<p>The Wings started 1 of 17 from the field. Overall, they shot 38% (28 of 74), going 7 of 28 from 3\u2011point range and 6 of 12 from the foul line.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta efficient despite turnovers<\/p>\n<p>The Dream shot 55% (34 of 62), going 6 of 15 behind the arc and 12 of 13 from the foul line. That helped them overcome 17 turnovers.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Azzi Fudd hit a 3\u2011pointer 6:12 into the game for the first Dallas basket. The Dream led 19-5 after one quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas started the second quarter with the first eight points, but the Dream recovered and led 44-31 at the half.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Wings: At New York on Sunday. Dream: Host Phoenix on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rhyne Howard had 25 points and eight assists as the Atlanta Dream started fast and finished strong to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11718,32784,1770,102,104,103,14421,154,14422],"class_list":["post-305479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-basketball","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-wings","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}