{"id":101211,"date":"2025-08-22T06:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/101211\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T06:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:34:06","slug":"sparkling-numbers-aug-20-vs-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/101211\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparkling Numbers \u2013 Aug. 20 vs. Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kelsey Plum\u00a0set the franchise&#8217;s single-season scoring record of 693 points when she banked a buzzer-beating floater to give the Sparks the win. The veteran guard also moved into the leading spot for three-pointers made by a Spark in a single season, surpassing\u00a0Kristi Toliver.<\/p>\n<p>After securing eight boards against the Wings,\u00a0Azur\u00e1 Stevens\u00a0 leads the league in games with five or more rebounds, notching her 33rd. Stevens also contributed six assists on Wednesday, a career high for the forward-center.<\/p>\n<p>Rickea Jackson\u00a0added a team-high 25 points on 9-for-15 overall shooting and 6-for-7 from deep, matching her career high and setting a season high in made threes. The Sparks are now 8-0 when the second-year wing scores 20 or more points.<\/p>\n<p>The Sparks outscored the Wings 18-4 in fourth-quarter paint points and 46-32 in the painted area overall.<\/p>\n<p>Julie Allemand\u00a0contributed a team-high eight assists Wednesday night, resulting in 20 points for Los Angeles. The guard has contributed seven or more assists in five of her past 11 games.<\/p>\n<p>Four offensive rebounds against Dallas marked a career high for\u00a0Cameron Brink, who had eight total boards. The forward scored 11 points (5-for-9 FG) and finished with a team-high +14 rating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelsey Plum\u00a0set the franchise&#8217;s single-season scoring record of 693 points when she banked a buzzer-beating floater to give&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-101211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}