{"id":618797,"date":"2026-05-02T07:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T07:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618797\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T07:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T07:07:08","slug":"fire-players-arrive-in-portland-ahead-of-preseason-game-against-la-sparks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618797\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire players arrive in Portland ahead of preseason game against LA Sparks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) &#8211; The newest team in town is now complete as the final Fire players have arrived in Portland fresh off the end of their overseas seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The number one pick in the expansion draft for the Fire, Bridget Carleton of Canada, and second year forward Chloe Bibby from Australia are now in the city of roses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Second round draft pick Frieda Buhner also just flew into the Pacific Northwest for her first day in class as a developmental player for head coach Alex Sarama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The team is ready for the return of the Fire to the Rose Quarter in the preseason home opener on Sunday at 4 p.m. against Cameron Brink and the Los Angeles Sparks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This will be the first WNBA game in the Moda Center since it was the Rose Garden when the original Fire last played in 2002.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">FOX 12\u2019s Nick Krupke and two-time WNBA champion Sheri Sam will host the pregame show, Fire Courtside Live, at 3:30 p.m. on Rose City SportsNet. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KPTV-KPDX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) &#8211; The newest team in town is now complete as the final Fire players have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-618797","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\/618797","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=618797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}