{"id":724499,"date":"2026-06-25T05:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T05:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/724499\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T05:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T05:03:16","slug":"portland-fire-open-road-trip-with-a-dud-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/724499\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Fire open road trip with a dud in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Fire disappeared down the stretch in a 101-78 loss in Chicago on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Portland was within a point midway through the third quarter when Chicago broke the game open with a 12-point surge in less than two minutes of play. The Fire chased from double digits behind the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Gabriela Jaquez converted a layup to push the margin past 20 points with 7:12 to play.<\/p>\n<p>The Sky had seven players score in double figures.<\/p>\n<p>Megan Gustafson led the Fire with 17 points.<\/p>\n<p>Portland jumped to the early lead on back-to-back 3-pointers by Gustafson and Emily Engstler on the team\u2019s first two trips down the floor. But Chicago reclaimed the lead on a Natasha Cloud triple late in the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Portland (8-10) gets a rematch in Chicago (5-12) on Friday before traveling to Washington D.C. for a Sunday afternoon game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland Fire disappeared down the stretch in a 101-78 loss in Chicago on Wednesday night. Portland was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-724499","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\/724499","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=724499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}