{"id":697228,"date":"2026-06-11T06:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/697228\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T06:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:48:08","slug":"photos-seattle-storm-face-former-teammates-in-tight-loss-to-los-angeles-sparks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/697228\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Seattle Storm face former teammates in tight loss to Los Angeles Sparks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Storm hosted the Los Angeles Sparks for Celebrate Seattle Sports day, losing 88-83 in a tight contest, marking their seventh straight loss in a row. Returning to Climate Pledge Arena was former Storm guard Erica Wheeler and forward Nneka Ogwumike, who received a warm welcome from fans, coaches and former teammates. Speaking to media postgame, Storm guard Flau&#8217;jae Johnson, who had 14 points, said: &#8216;No rain, No flowers. I&#8217;m a winner and we are going to figure out how to win.&#8217; Natisha Hiedeman led Seattle with 16 points. During the game, the Storm honored several visiting Seattle teams in attendance and displayed the Vince Lombardi Super Bowl trophy very briefly on the main concourse. The Storm&#8217;s next home game is this Friday, June 12 at 7 p.m. against the Golden State Valkyries. (Image: Caroline Anne \/ Seattle Refined) June 10, 2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Storm hosted the Los Angeles Sparks for Celebrate Seattle Sports day, losing 88-83 in a tight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-697228","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\/697228","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=697228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}