Portland Fire point guard Carla Leite saved the day twice for the Portland Fire but asking her to come up with heroics a third time proved too much in a 124-123 quadruple overtime loss at the Washington Mystics on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The Fire competed in only the second four-overtime game in WNBA history, and the first since 2001. Sunday\u2019s marathon matchup lasted three hours and 35 minutes, featuring 21 ties and 13 lead changes.<\/p>\n
Portland seemed doomed, trailing 87-84 with the Mystics at the free-throw line and only 0:08 on the clock. Washington missed both free throws, Leite snagged the rebound and raced down the sideline, launching an off-balance desperation shot that hit the glass and found its way through the hoop to force overtime.<\/p>\n
Again down three late in the first overtime, and Leite pulled up several steps behind the arc and hit another tying 3 to keep the game going.<\/p>\n
Teammate Brandi Carleton stepped up late in the third overtime, hitting a turnaround fadeaway shot from the baseline with 0:03 left to force the historic fourth extra period.<\/p>\n
Leite converted a layup to put Portland up 120-118 with 1:25 to play, but back-to-back layups by Sonia Citron put the Mystics up two down the stretch.<\/p>\n
Leite drew a foul on a drive to the basket, making 1 of 2 at the free-throw line to make it a one-point game in the final seconds. Portland\u2019s Serah Williams grabbed the rebound on the miss, but the Fire missed a pair of shots in the paint that would have won the game.<\/p>\n
Citron logged more than 52 minutes and finished with a game-high 32 points. Leite matched that effort for the Fire, ending the game with 32 points and nine assists.<\/p>\n
Portland (8-12) is back in action on Saturday, July 4, ending their road swing in Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Fire point guard Carla Leite saved the day twice for the Portland Fire but asking her to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-734027","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\/734027","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=734027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}