{"id":414941,"date":"2026-08-23T23:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T23:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/414941\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T23:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T23:28:16","slug":"wnba-storm-fizzles-out-against-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/414941\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA: Storm fizzles out against Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img width=\"700\" height=\"364\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/storm-812-e1786556588603.webp\" class=\"img-fluid wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"storm 812\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>8\/23\/2026\n<\/p>\n<p>Dallas 92, Seattle 70\n<\/p>\n<p>(Dallas, Tx) The Seattle Storm came out slow again in the 1st half trailing 56-35 but this time there was no big comeback in the 2nd half as the Dallas Wings made sure there was no hope of a comeback.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>The Storm did reel back 6 points in the 3rd quarter outscoring the Wings 23-17 but Dallas slammed the door in the 4th with a 19-12 run to secure an easy 92-70 victory.\n<\/p>\n<p>For Dallas, Paige Bueckers was unstoppable dropping 32 points and was a sizzling hot 6 for 6 from behind the 3-point line. Jessica Shepard chipped in a double-douoble with 11 points and 11 rebounds.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>For the Storm, Flau\u2019jae Johnson led with 23 points and added 6 boards, 2 assists and 3 steals for a nice final stat line. Jade Melbourne hit for 15 and with a dozen points was Dominique Malonga.\n<\/p>\n<p>Dallas improves to 22-16 and making a post season push currently in the 8th and final play-off position. The Wings have 6 games left in the regular season and are next on the road in Portland to face the Fire on Tuesday.\n<\/p>\n<p>Seattle\u2019s struggles continue and they remain in the basement with a 7-31 overall record. The Storm also has 6 regular season games left in their season with no chance of getting to post season. They will host Toronto on Wednesday.\n<\/p>\n<p>West42sports.com<br \/>\n        &#13;\n        <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPost navigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; 8\/23\/2026 Dallas 92, Seattle 70 (Dallas, Tx) The Seattle Storm came out slow again in the 1st&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-414941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414941","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=414941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}