{"id":617967,"date":"2026-05-01T20:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/617967\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:53:08","slug":"portland-fire-begin-roster-cuts-with-release-of-peyton-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/617967\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Fire begin roster cuts with release of Peyton Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WNBA teams must finalize their opening-day rosters by May 6. <\/p>\n<p>PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 The Portland Fire announced their first roster cut Friday as the team works toward the required roster limit. Portland waived forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/sports\/wnba\/portland-fire\/portland-fire-signs-three-more-players-growing-roster-ahead-debut-season\/283-f802eaa4-841a-4b9d-96a0-fe15e5911b1c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Peyton Williams<\/a> after initially signing her April 15 following the WNBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>WNBA teams must finalize their opening-day rosters \u2014 up to 12 players \u2014 by May 6. Teams are also now allowed two developmental roster spots.<\/p>\n<p>Williams most recently played overseas for Wuhan Shengfan in China, where she averaged 12.2 points, 7.1 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.6 steals per game while shooting 57.2% from the field. She graduated from Kansas State in 2020 and earned All-Big 12 first-team honors as a senior.<\/p>\n<p>The Fire will play a preseason game at home Sunday, May 3, against the Los Angeles Sparks. Tipoff is scheduled for 4 p.m. Portland opens the regular season at home against the Chicago Sky on Saturday, May 9, at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nPortland Fire training camp roster:\u00a0                    <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s where the roster stands as of 12:30 p.m. Friday:<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Ashlee Barker \u2014 guard\u00a0Chloe Bibby \u2014 forwardFrieda B\u00fchner \u2014 forwardMaya Caldwell \u2014 guard\u00a0Bridget Carleton \u2014 forwardEmily Engstler \u2014 forwardLuisa Geisels\u00f6der \u2014 centerMegan Gustafson \u2014 centerJordan Harrison \u2014 guard\u00a0Haley Jones \u2014 forwardCarla Leite \u2014 guardTeja Oblak \u2014 guardNyadiew Puoch \u2014 forwardKarlie Samuelson \u2014 forwardKamiah Smalls \u2014 guardSug Sutton \u2014 guardSerah Williams \u2014 corner                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WNBA teams must finalize their opening-day rosters by May 6. PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 The Portland Fire announced their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-617967","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\/617967","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=617967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}