{"id":141246,"date":"2025-09-08T08:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/141246\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:21:06","slug":"allemand-scores-21-burrell-sparks-late-run-sparks-beat-wings-91-77-remain-alive-in-playoff-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/141246\/","title":{"rendered":"Allemand scores 21, Burrell sparks late run; Sparks beat Wings 91-77, remain alive in playoff hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Julie Allemand had a career-high 21 points, Rae Burrell scored 11 of her 13 in a 16-0 run to open the fourth quarter and the Los Angeles Sparks beat the Dallas Wings 91-77 on Sunday to avoid elimination from playoff contention.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles (20-22) has to win its last two regular-season games and have Seattle lose to Golden State on Tuesday night to make the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>The Sparks visits Phoenix on Tuesday before wrapping up the regular season at home Thursday against Las Vegas. The Wings conclude the regular season at home against Phoenix on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Allemand made all eight of her shots from the field, hit three 3-pointers and had a career-high five steals. Dearica Hamby scored 15 points, Azur\u00e1 Stevens had 13 points and 11 rebounds, Kelsey Plum scored 12 and Rickea Jackson added 11 points for Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas scored seven consecutive points early in the third quarter and Myisha Hines-Allen hit a corner 3-pointer with 4:26 left that gave the Wings a 55-54 lead, their first since 6-4. Allemand hit a 3-pointer to take a two-point lead just before the buzzer in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Paige Bueckers led Dallas with 18 points, seven assists and six rebounds. Hines-Allen added 15 points, a season-high 13 rebounds and seven assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Sparks hit 10 3-pointers and had 12 steals.<\/p>\n<p>Arike Ogunbowale (knee) missed her 11th consecutive game for Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Julie Allemand had a career-high 21 points, Rae Burrell scored 11 of her 13 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-141246","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\/141246","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=141246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}