{"id":834757,"date":"2026-09-03T02:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/834757\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T02:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:44:09","slug":"fiba-womens-world-cup-how-when-to-watch-all-storm-players-competing-emerald-city-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/834757\/","title":{"rendered":"FIBA Women\u2019s World Cup: How, When to Watch All Storm Players Competing \u2014 Emerald City Spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"sqsrte-large\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">The Seattle Storm have four players competing in the FIBA Women\u2019s Basketball World Cup that begins on Friday, Sept. 4, in Berlin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"sqsrte-large\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">Dominique Malonga (France), Awa Fam (Spain), Ezi Magbegor (Australia) and Jade Melbourne (Australia) will all be playing for their home countries in the nine-day, 16-team tournament, which has all WNBA teams taking a short break from the season near its end.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"sqsrte-large\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">Fam was the only Storm player who had her contract temporarily suspended by the franchise, as she reported to the Spain national team early. That forced her to miss Seattle\u2019s final game before the FIBA break on Sunday, Aug. 30 \u2014 a 90-74 loss to the Los Angeles Sparks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"sqsrte-large\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">Malonga, Magbegor and Melbourne all played right up to the break.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"sqsrte-large\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">The World Cup has four groups, each with four teams. Each team will play three games in the group phase, one each against the other teams in their group.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Storm have four players competing in the FIBA Women\u2019s Basketball World Cup that begins on Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-834757","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\/834757","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=834757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}