{"id":776841,"date":"2026-07-22T00:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/776841\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T00:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:33:09","slug":"bridget-carleton-to-represent-portland-fire-in-the-2026-wnba-3-point-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/776841\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridget Carleton to represent Portland Fire in the 2026 WNBA 3-point contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) &#8211; Portland Fire forward Bridget Carleton has been selected to participate in the 2026 WNBA 3-point contest in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Carleton is currently sixth in the league with 65 threes made in her eighth WNBA season, while shooting 38.2% from behind the arc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Five other players will compete against Carleton in the 3-point contest:<\/p>\n<p>Azzi Fudd &#8211; Dallas WingsNatisha Hiedeman &#8211; Seattle StormRhyne Howard &#8211; Atlanta DreamMarina Mabrey &#8211; Toronto TempoJanelle Salaun &#8211; Golden State Valkyries<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Indiana\u2019s Caitlin Clark, New York\u2019s Sabrina Ionescu, and Minnesota\u2019s Kayla McBride, all declined to participate in this year\u2019s contest, according to ESPN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 2026 WNBA 3-point contest is set for 5 p.m. on Friday, July 24, at Wintrust Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KPTV-KPDX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) &#8211; Portland Fire forward Bridget Carleton has been selected to participate in the 2026 WNBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-776841","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\/776841","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=776841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}