Portland Fire (15-22, 6-11 Western Conference) at Dallas Wings (22-16, 9-9 Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Arlington, Texas; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Dallas Wings hosts the Portland Fire after Paige Bueckers scored 32 points in the Dallas Wings\u2019 92-70 win against the Seattle Storm.<\/p>\n
The Wings have gone 9-9 against Western Conference opponents. Dallas ranks fifth in the Western Conference with 37.9 points per game in the paint led by Jessica Shepard averaging 10.4.<\/p>\n
The Fire are 6-11 against Western Conference opponents. Portland has a 7-14 record against teams above .500.<\/p>\n
Dallas averages 88.6 points per game, 2.7 fewer points than the 91.3 Portland allows. Portland has shot at a 45.2% clip from the field this season, 0.3 percentage points less than the 45.5% shooting opponents of Dallas have averaged.<\/p>\n
The two teams square off for the third time this season. The Wings defeated the Fire 101-97 in their last matchup on July 23. Arike Ogunbowale led the Wings with 24 points, and Megan Gustafson led the Fire with 21 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Shepard is scoring 14.2 points per game and averaging 11.1 rebounds for the Wings. Bueckers is averaging 20.3 points and 3.9 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Bridget Carleton is averaging 14.7 points and 1.6 steals for the Fire. Gustafson is averaging 14.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Wings: 4-6, averaging 85.0 points, 34.1 rebounds, 19.8 assists, 6.1 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 45.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 85.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
Fire: 4-6, averaging 91.1 points, 32.6 rebounds, 21.4 assists, 6.8 steals and 2.8 blocks per game while shooting 45.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 93.1 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Wings: Azzi Fudd: out for season (knee), Aziaha James: out (leg).<\/p>\n
Fire: Sarah Ashlee Barker: out for season (knee), Sania Feagin: out for season (knee).<\/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 (15-22, 6-11 Western Conference) at Dallas Wings (22-16, 9-9 Western Conference) Arlington, Texas; Tuesday, 8 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14447,9121,136051,102,104,103,14421,3002,93656,144672,6539,14446,11730,66561,32788,144673,154,14422,94597],"class_list":["post-415224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-arike-ogunbowale","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-bridget-carleton","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-wings","tag-fires","tag-jessica-shepard","tag-megan-gustafson","tag-nba-basketball","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-portland","tag-portland-pilots","tag-portland-fire","tag-sarah-ashlee-barker","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415224","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=415224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}