{"id":813864,"date":"2026-08-14T23:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T23:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/813864\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T23:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T23:22:08","slug":"mystics-vs-sparks-preview-washington-comes-home-to-face-the-sparks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/813864\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystics vs Sparks Preview: Washington comes home to face the Sparks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">When: Saturday, August 15th at 7:30 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">How to watch: Monumental Sports Network, League Pass<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Where: CareFirst Arena, Washington, DC<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Mystics: No Injuries Reported<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Sparks: Cameron Brink &#8211; Out (Ribs), Monique Akoa Makani &#8211; Out (Ankle)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Mystics head back home after a quick two-game trip to Las Vegas, where they dropped both games. After having a 7-game winning streak, Washington has dropped two straight games, so they are looking to get back on track.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">If there is a way to categorize the Mystics\u2019 play on Thursday, it would be inconsistent. Although they were able to stay close to the Aces on Thursday, their issues with turnovers showed up again. Mystics have shown the ability to play high-level basketball, but in order to make some noise in the playoffs they will need to be consistent at taking care of the ball, making their free throws and continuing to defend at a high-level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Mystics will be facing the Los Angeles Sparks who have been reeling a little bit lately, losers of three straight games and now short of their 2nd year starter, Cameron Brink, who went down in the Sparks\u2019 loss to the Liberty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Let\u2019s see if the Mystics can turn things around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When: Saturday, August 15th at 7:30 p.m. ET How to watch: Monumental Sports Network, League Pass Where: CareFirst&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,8253,70050,434],"class_list":["post-813864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-washington-mystics","tag-washington-mystics-game-preview","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813864","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=813864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}