{"id":126872,"date":"2025-09-02T09:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/126872\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:24:07","slug":"los-angeles-sparks-playoff-push-and-scrimmage-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/126872\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Sparks&#8217; Playoff Push and Scrimmage Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"textoverflow-2 text-gray-light\">SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Dearica Hamby had 27 points and 11 rebounds, Rickea Jackson added 23 points and the Los Angeles Sparks beat the Seattle Storm 91-85 on Monday night. Seattle led 85-80 with 2:47 to play but Hamby scored five points and Jackson four in an 11-0 closing run to pull the Sparks within 1 1\/2 games of the Storm and Indiana for the final two playoff spots. Seattle missed its last five shots. Kelsey Plum added 14 points for Los Angeles (19-20) and Rae Burrell had 11. Hamby had 11 rebounds as the Sparks dominated the boards 37-23. The also had a 60-30 advantage on points in the paint. Nneka Ogwumike had 21 points on five first half 3-pointers and two second half three-point plays for the Storm (22-20). Skylar Diggins also had 21 points and Ezi Magbegor added 11. Gabby Williams had two baskets and an assist to fuel a 10-0 run for the Storm, who led 25-20 after one quarter. Ogwumike had three 3-pointers in less than a minute, making her 5 for 5, for a 36-25 lead 3 1\/2 minutes into the second quarter. The Storm had six 3s in the quarter with Erica Wheeler\u2019s in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Dearica Hamby had 27 points and 11 rebounds, Rickea Jackson added 23 points and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-126872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126872","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=126872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}