Minnesota Lynx (11-3, 7-1 Western Conference) at Los Angeles Sparks (7-7, 5-4 Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Los Angeles; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Western Conference foes Los Angeles Sparks and Minnesota Lynx square off on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The Sparks have gone 5-4 against Western Conference teams. Los Angeles ranks sixth in the Western Conference in rebounding with 31.6 rebounds. Nneka Ogwumike leads the Sparks with 9.0 boards.<\/p>\n
The Lynx are 7-1 in Western Conference play. Minnesota is the top team in the Western Conference with 43.0 points per game in the paint led by Natasha Howard averaging 14.1.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles scores 88.1 points, 8.7 more per game than the 79.4 Minnesota gives up. Minnesota averages 7.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.4 fewer makes per game than Los Angeles gives up.<\/p>\n
The matchup Wednesday is the first meeting of the season for the two teams.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Kelsey Plum is averaging 25 points and 6.4 assists for the Sparks. Ogwumike is averaging 13.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Howard is averaging 17.8 points, 7.4 rebounds and 1.8 steals for the Lynx. Olivia Miles is averaging 19.2 points and 5.3 rebounds while shooting 57.0% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Sparks: 6-4, averaging 88.2 points, 33.7 rebounds, 20.0 assists, 7.5 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 44.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 87.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
Lynx: 9-1, averaging 95.0 points, 39.3 rebounds, 22.9 assists, 9.5 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 50.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 76.5 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Sparks: None listed.<\/p>\n
Lynx: Liatu King: out (coach decision), Napheesa Collier: out (ankle), Emma Cechova: out for season (knee), Dorka Juhasz: out (foot).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Lynx (11-3, 7-1 Western Conference) at Los Angeles Sparks (7-7, 5-4 Western Conference) Los Angeles; Wednesday, 10…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[305290,305291,10504,3031,3029,6429,1077,3250,12814,1063,4385,15114,99,434,13017],"class_list":["post-707139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-dorka-juhasz","tag-emma-cechova","tag-kelsey-plum","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-sparks","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-napheesa-collier","tag-natasha-howard","tag-nba-basketball","tag-nneka-ogwumike","tag-olivia-miles","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707139","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=707139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}