{"id":753658,"date":"2026-07-10T01:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/753658\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T01:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:05:11","slug":"portland-fire-host-las-vegas-aces-to-close-out-first-half-of-inaugural-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/753658\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Fire host Las Vegas Aces to close out first half of inaugural season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) &#8211; The Portland Fire are set to host the Las Vegas Aces on Thursday night as they reach the halfway point in their first WNBA season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This will be the Fire\u2019s second meeting this season against the reigning WNBA champions. The last game on June 11 ended in a 105-89 victory for the Aces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Four-time MVP A\u2019ja Wilson is listed as questionable for Las Vegas after missing the past three games with a leg injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. at the Moda Center and on Rose City SportsNet. Tune in half an hour early for the Fire Courtside Live pregame show.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KPTV-KPDX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) &#8211; The Portland Fire are set to host the Las Vegas Aces on Thursday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[975,99,434,976],"class_list":["post-753658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-975","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wspix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753658","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=753658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}