{"id":831585,"date":"2026-08-31T05:40:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/831585\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T05:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:40:22","slug":"nneka-ogwumike-and-rae-burrell-lead-sparks-to-win-over-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/831585\/","title":{"rendered":"Nneka Ogwumike and Rae Burrell lead Sparks to win over Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SEATTLE\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Nneka Ogwumike<\/a> had 23 points and 12 rebounds, Rae Burrell<\/a> scored 22 points, and the visiting Sparks beat the Seattle Storm 90-74<\/a> on Sunday in their final game before the FIBA World Cup break.<\/p>\n

The Sparks scored the first 13 points in an opening 18-2 run and Dearica Hamby\u2019s layup with 5:45 left in the first half capped an 11-0 spurt that gave them a 39-20 lead. Seattle shot 32% (12 of 38) from the field and two of 11 (18%) from behind the arc before going into halftime trailing by 19. The Storm were just as bad from three-point range in the second half, finishing four of 22.<\/p>\n

Cameron Brink had 11 points on three-of-15 shooting for the Sparks (15-25).<\/p>\n

Flau\u2019jae Johnson scored 11 of her 19 points in the fourth quarter and Dominique Malonga had 17 points, on eight-of-21 shooting, and 15 rebounds for the Storm (8-32). Zia Cooke made six of 17 from the field for 14 points.<\/p>\n

Seattle is 1-18 against Western Conference teams this season, its only win coming at the Sparks, 82-64, on July 6.<\/p>\n

The Storm\u2019s Jordan Horston fell awkwardly midway through the third quarter, limped to the locker room and did not return.<\/p>\n

Awa Fam and Natisha Hiedeman did not play for the Storm.<\/p>\n

Up next for the Sparks: at Dallas on Sept. 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Nneka Ogwumike had 23 points and 12 rebounds, Rae Burrell scored 22 points, and the visiting Sparks beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[48944,56300,15635,4390,90506,4281,4385,13544,352184,17589,19630,4676,23629,99,4388,6310,434],"class_list":["post-831585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-dearica-hamby","tag-dominique-malonga","tag-field","tag-fourth-quarter","tag-layup","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-nneka-ogwumike","tag-point","tag-rae-burrell-lead-spark","tag-rebound","tag-run","tag-seattle-storm","tag-sparks","tag-sports","tag-storm","tag-victory","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831585","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=831585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}