{"id":140563,"date":"2025-09-08T01:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T01:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/140563\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T01:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T01:18:07","slug":"sparks-defeat-dallas-to-keep-their-faint-playoff-hopes-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/140563\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparks defeat Dallas to keep their faint playoff hopes alive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Sparks<\/a> defeated the Dallas Wings 91-77<\/a> on Sunday at Crypto.com Arena to keep their faint playoff hopes alive heading into the final week of the regular season.<\/p>\n

Julie Allemand<\/a> finished with 21 points, a career-high five steals and four assists, and Rae Burrell<\/a> had 13 points as the Sparks went on a 16-0 run in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

The Sparks (20-22) must win their final two games against Phoenix and Las Vegas and have Seattle lose to Golden State on Tuesday to make the postseason.<\/p>\n

The Sparks led for nearly the entire game, capitalizing on 10 three-pointers, 12 steals and six players scoring in double digits.<\/p>\n

Dallas, however, went on a 19-2 run at the beginning of the third quarter and managed to briefly lead twice. <\/p>\n

Amy Okonkwo<\/a> hit a three-pointer with 8.9 seconds left in the third quarter to give the Wings (9-34) a one-point lead. But the Sparks didn\u2019t waste time responding, with Allemand hitting a three-pointer before the buzzer that put the Sparks ahead for good.<\/p>\n

The Sparks then pulled away in the fourth quarter, with Burrell scoring 11 points.<\/p>\n

Momentum shifted in the third quarter as the Wings went on a 19-2 run in the beginning of the quarter.<\/p>\n

Dallas managed to take a one-point lead late in the third quarter before Allemand hit a three-pointer before the buzzer that put the Sparks ahead for good. Burrell scored 11 points in the fourth quarter to help the Sparks pull away. <\/p>\n

Azur\u00e1 Stevens had 13 points and 11 rebounds, and Dearica Hamby<\/a> finished with 15 points and 13 rebounds. Kelsey Plum had 12 points and Rickea Jackson contributed 11 points.<\/p>\n

Dallas rookie Paige Bueckers finished with 18 points, seven assists and six rebounds for Dallas. Myisha Hines-Allen had 15 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists. Maddy Siegrist added 13 points and four rebounds for the Wings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sparks defeated the Dallas Wings 91-77 on Sunday at Crypto.com Arena to keep their faint playoff hopes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[24796,1062,87548,4390,23628,13544,10505,17589,19630,31878,23629,99,33998,21122,48947,13469,434],"class_list":["post-140563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-assist","tag-dallas","tag-faint-playoff","tag-fourth-quarter","tag-julie-allemand","tag-point","tag-rae-burrell","tag-rebound","tag-run","tag-spark","tag-sparks","tag-sports","tag-steal","tag-third-quarter","tag-three-pointer","tag-wings","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140563","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=140563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}