{"id":828537,"date":"2026-08-28T10:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T10:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828537\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T10:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T10:18:09","slug":"washington-seeks-25th-win-this-season-in-matchup-with-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828537\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington seeks 25th win this season in matchup with Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Mystics<\/a> (24-15, 11-5 Eastern Conference) at Los Angeles Sparks<\/a> (13-25, 7-11 Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Los Angeles; Friday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Mystics -5.5; over\/under is 167.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Washington Mystics will try to earn its 25th win of the season when the Mystics visit the Los Angeles Sparks.<\/p>\n

The Sparks are 6-13 in home games. Los Angeles ranks seventh in the Western Conference in rebounding averaging 31.1 rebounds. Nneka Ogwumike<\/a> paces the Sparks with 8.9 boards.<\/p>\n

The Mystics are 11-8 on the road. Washington ranks second in the WNBA<\/a> with 10.4 offensive rebounds per game led by Kiki Iriafen<\/a> averaging 3.1.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles scores 87.3 points per game, 4.4 more points than the 82.9 Washington allows. Washington’s 44.8% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.9 percentage points lower than Los Angeles has allowed to its opponents (47.7%).<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the third time this season. The Mystics won the last matchup 80-70 on Aug. 15, with Sonia Citron<\/a> scoring 21 points in the victory.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Dearica Hamby<\/a> is averaging 14.8 points and seven rebounds for the Sparks. Ogwumike is averaging 16.8 points and 8.9 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Iriafen is averaging 15.4 points and 9.4 rebounds for the Mystics. Shakira Austin<\/a> is averaging 19.2 points and 9.0 rebounds while shooting 51.8% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Sparks: 2-8, averaging 80.6 points, 31.9 rebounds, 21.4 assists, 7.6 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 45.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 87.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

Mystics: 7-3, averaging 86.2 points, 39.2 rebounds, 20.4 assists, 6.0 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 48.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 82.1 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Sparks: Tonie Morgan<\/a>: day to day (undisclosed), Rae Burrell: day to day (illness).<\/p>\n

Mystics: None listed.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Mystics (24-15, 11-5 Eastern Conference) at Los Angeles Sparks (13-25, 7-11 Western Conference) Los Angeles; Friday, 10…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[48944,230765,8255,3029,4385,648,8254,99,350955,8253,434,13016],"class_list":["post-828537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-dearica-hamby","tag-event_preview","tag-kiki-iriafen","tag-los-angeles-sparks","tag-nneka-ogwumike","tag-shakira-austin","tag-sonia-citron","tag-sports","tag-tonie-morgan","tag-washington-mystics","tag-wnba","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828537","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=828537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}