{"id":771097,"date":"2026-07-18T23:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/771097\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T23:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:52:17","slug":"sydney-taylor-sky-beat-sparks-as-nneka-ogwumike-becomes-las-career-scoring-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/771097\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Taylor, Sky beat Sparks as Nneka Ogwumike becomes LA&#8217;s career scoring leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney Taylor hit four 3-pointers and scored 19 points and the Chicago Sky beat Los Angeles 96-82 on Friday night as Nneka Ogwumike became the Sparks&#8217; career scoring leader.<\/p>\n<p>Ogwumike finished with 18 points and 12 rebounds, also moving past Candace Parker (3,467) into third on the WNBA&#8217;s career rebounds list with 3,472.<\/p>\n<p>Kamilla Cardoso had 13 points, 11 rebounds and two blocks for Chicago (7-16). Natasha Cloud had 15 points and nine rebounds, Jacy Sheldon added 14 points and Azura Stevens scored 12 points.<\/p>\n<p>Dearica Hamby also scored 18 points for the Sparks (10-14) and Erica Wheeler added 14. LA has lost three consecutive games.<\/p>\n<p>Ogwumike scored 23 points Wednesday night in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sparks-lynx-score-292a873783ad1b410438cf16f39c13eb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">96-87<\/a>\u00a0loss at Minnesota to tie the mark of 6,263 points set by Lisa Leslie, and hit a short jumper about three minutes into the game Friday to break the record.<\/p>\n<p>Picked No. 1 overall by the Sparks in 2012, Ogwumike returned to Los Angeles this season after spending the last two with Seattle. The 36-year-old forward has 7,703 career points.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey Plum (leg) did not play for the Sparks.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago&#8217;s Skylar Diggins (knee) missed her fifth consecutive game.<\/p>\n<p>LA beat the Sky\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sky-sparks-score-5095facdef547145edef73968a9cb3d1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">102-77<\/a>\u00a0at home last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Sparks: At Dallas on Sunday<\/p>\n<p>Sky: At Atlanta on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Taylor hit four 3-pointers and scored 19 points and the Chicago Sky beat Los Angeles 96-82 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[157,3031,99,434,238055],"class_list":["post-771097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-chicago","tag-los-angeles","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-women039s-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771097","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=771097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}