Indiana Fever (18-10, 7-4 Eastern Conference) at Portland Fire (11-17, 3-9 Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Portland, Oregon; Friday, 9 p.m. CDT on WNBA League Pass<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Indiana Fever visits the Portland Fire after Caitlin Clark scored 32 points in the Fever\u2019s 105-95 win against the Seattle Storm.<\/p>\n
The Fire have gone 6-7 at home. Portland is 5-11 in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n
The Fever are 7-5 on the road. Indiana ranks fourth in the Eastern Conference with 33.9 rebounds per game led by Aliyah Boston averaging 8.2.<\/p>\n
Portland is shooting 44.8% from the field this season, 1.2 percentage points lower than the 46.0% Indiana allows to opponents. Indiana averages 10.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.8 more made shots on average than the 8.6 per game Portland allows.<\/p>\n
The two teams play for the third time this season. The Fire defeated the Fever 100-84 in their last meeting on May 31. Megan Gustafson led the Fire with 22 points, and Boston led the Fever with 18 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Bridget Carleton is scoring 13.7 points per game and averaging 3.9 rebounds for the Fire. Carla Leite is averaging 17.2 points and 2.5 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Clark is averaging 21.5 points and 7.8 assists for the Fever. Kelsey Mitchell is averaging 27.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Fire: 3-7, averaging 91.1 points, 31.3 rebounds, 21.6 assists, 8.4 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 45.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 94.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
Fever: 8-2, averaging 100.9 points, 34.1 rebounds, 19.7 assists, 7.0 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 50.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 89.1 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Fire: Sarah Ashlee Barker: out for season (knee), Sania Feagin: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n
Fever: Aliyah Boston: day to day (lower leg), Bree Hall: day to day (ankle), Damiris Dantas: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever (18-10, 7-4 Eastern Conference) at Portland Fire (11-17, 3-9 Western Conference) Portland, Oregon; Friday, 9 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-795358","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\/795358","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=795358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}