{"id":74031,"date":"2025-08-11T06:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/74031\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T06:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:27:07","slug":"hamby-finishes-a-three-point-play-with-5-6-seconds-to-lift-la-sparks-past-seattle-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/74031\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamby finishes a three-point play with 5.6 seconds to lift LA Sparks past Seattle Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Dearica Hamby scored seven of Los Angeles&#8217; final nine points including the winning three-point play with 5.6 seconds left, Kelsey Plum scored 20 points, and the Sparks beat the Seattle Storm 94-91 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Hamby, who scored 19 points, knotted it at 87-all with two free throws with 1:25 left. Plum sank a pair of free throws with 56.5 seconds to go for a two-point lead.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle&#8217;s Brittney Sykes hit a pair of late layups including one with 12.7 seconds left to tie it at 91-all, setting up Hamby&#8217;s layup to win it.<\/p>\n<p>Sykes scored 27 points, reserve Dominique Malonga scored 20, Skylar Diggins 17 and Nneka Ogwumike 15 for Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>The Storm (16-16) built a 26-14 lead after the first quarter before Los Angeles won the second, 32-14, and led 46-40 at halftime. The second half was back-and-forth and neither team led by more than eight.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle led 87-80 with 2:52 left on a basket by Diggins.<\/p>\n<p>Azura Stevens scored 15 points and Cameron Brink came off the bench to score 14 for the Sparks.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Dearica Hamby scored seven of Los Angeles&#8217; final nine points including the winning three-point&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-74031","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\/74031","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=74031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}