Dallas Wings (26-17, 12-10 Western Conference) at Seattle Storm (8-35, 1-21 Western Conference), Seattle; Wednesday, 9 p.m. CST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Dallas Wings visit the Seattle Storm after Paige Bueckers scored 30 points in the Wings\u2019 87-86 loss to the Phoenix Mercury.<\/p>\n
The Storm are 1-21 against Western Conference opponents. Seattle ranks sixth in the WNBA with 34.0 rebounds per game, led by Dominique Malonga, who averages 8.8.<\/p>\n
The Wings are 12-10 in Western Conference play. Dallas ranks fourth in the WNBA with 34.7 rebounds per game. Jessica Shepard leads the Wings with 11.1.<\/p>\n
Seattle is shooting 42.2% from the field this season, 2.5 percentage points lower than the 44.7% Dallas allows. Dallas averages 89.1 points per game, 0.5 more than the 88.6 Seattle allows to opponents.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the fourth time this season. The Wings won the last matchup 92-70 on Aug. 23. Bueckers scored 32 points to help lead the Wings to the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Malonga is scoring 16.8 points per game and averaging 8.8 rebounds for the Storm. Flau\u2019jae Johnson is averaging 14.6 points and 3.3 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Shepard is averaging 14.3 points, 11.1 rebounds, and 5.1 assists for the Wings. Bueckers is averaging 2.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Storm: 2-8, averaging 79.7 points, 35.5 rebounds, 18.6 assists, 8.4 steals, and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 38.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 89.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
Wings: 7-3, averaging 89.7 points, 36.5 rebounds, 22.4 assists, 6.8 steals, and 6.4 blocks per game while shooting 47.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 81.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Storm: Zia Cooke: day-to-day (knee), Ezi Magbegor: out for season (ACL), Katie Lou Samuelson: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n
Wings: Alanna Smith: out (leg), Azzi Fudd: out for the season (knee).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Wings (26-17, 12-10 Western Conference) at Seattle Storm (8-35, 1-21 Western Conference), Seattle; Wednesday, 9 p.m. CST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,14421],"class_list":["post-443946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443946","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=443946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}