{"id":852055,"date":"2026-09-18T11:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/852055\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:36:15","slug":"golden-state-hosts-portland-looks-for-30th-victory-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/852055\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden State hosts Portland, looks for 30th victory of season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland Fire<\/a> (16-25, 6-14 Western Conference) at Golden State Valkyries<\/a> (29-11, 12-7 Western Conference)<\/p>\n

San Francisco; Friday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Valkyries -12.5; over\/under is 160.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Golden State Valkyries will try to earn its 30th win of the season when the Valkyries host the Portland Fire.<\/p>\n

The Valkyries have gone 12-7 against Western Conference opponents. Golden State is the best team in the Western Conference in team defense, allowing 75.4 points while holding opponents to 41.8% shooting.<\/p>\n

The Fire are 6-14 against Western Conference opponents. Portland is 5-4 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n

Golden State averages 82.6 points per game, 8.5 fewer points than the 91.1 Portland allows. Portland has shot at a 45.2% clip from the field this season, 3.4 percentage points higher than the 41.8% shooting opponents of Golden State have averaged.<\/p>\n

The two teams play for the third time this season. The Valkyries defeated the Fire 86-69 in their last matchup on Aug. 30. Tiffany Hayes<\/a> led the Valkyries with 18 points, and Emily Engstler<\/a> led the Fire with 12 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Veronica Burton<\/a> is averaging 12.3 points, 5.8 assists and 1.5 steals for the Valkyries. Hayes is averaging 12.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Engstler is scoring 10.3 points per game and averaging 5.6 rebounds for the Fire. Bridget Carleton<\/a> is averaging 2.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Valkyries: 8-2, averaging 81.7 points, 34.8 rebounds, 20.8 assists, 8.0 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 43.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 70.4 points per game.<\/p>\n

Fire: 4-6, averaging 87.1 points, 31.8 rebounds, 20.1 assists, 7.9 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 45.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 89.1 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Valkyries: Gabby Williams: out (reconditioning), Cecilia Zandalasini<\/a>: day to day (reconditioning), Iliana Rupert<\/a>: out for season (pregnancy), Janelle Salaun: out (reconditioning).<\/p>\n

Fire: Teja Oblak: out (knee), Carla Leite: out (rest), Bridget Carleton: out (ankle), Sarah Ashlee Barker<\/a>: out for season (knee), Megan DiLeo: out (finger), Sania Feagin: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Fire (16-25, 6-14 Western Conference) at Golden State Valkyries (29-11, 12-7 Western Conference) San Francisco; Friday, 10…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[49796,41653,60422,230765,4804,70912,12077,92929,99,7631,60207,434,13016],"class_list":["post-852055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-bridget-carleton","tag-cecilia-zandalasini","tag-emily-engstler","tag-event_preview","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-iliana-rupert","tag-portland-fire","tag-sarah-ashlee-barker","tag-sports","tag-tiffany-hayes","tag-veronica-burton","tag-wnba","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852055","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=852055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}