{"id":853027,"date":"2026-09-19T08:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T08:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/853027\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T08:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T08:06:09","slug":"portland-takes-on-los-angeles-seeks-to-halt-3-game-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/853027\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland takes on Los Angeles, seeks to halt 3-game slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/portland-fire-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Fire<\/a> (16-26, 6-15 Western Conference) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/los-angeles-sparks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Sparks<\/a> (15-26, 8-12 Western Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Los Angeles; Sunday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Portland Fire is looking to break its three-game slide with a win over Los Angeles Sparks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">The Sparks have gone 8-12 against Western Conference teams. Los Angeles is 4-12 in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">The Fire have gone 6-15 against Western Conference opponents. Portland is 8-17 against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Los Angeles scores 87.1 points per game, 3.8 fewer points than the 90.9 Portland allows. Portland averages 86.2 points per game, 5.7 fewer points than the 91.9 Los Angeles gives up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">The teams play for the third time this season. The Sparks won the last meeting 106-101 on Aug. 2. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/dearica-hamby-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dearica Hamby<\/a> scored 23 points to help lead the Sparks to the victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/nneka-ogwumike-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nneka Ogwumike<\/a> is shooting 51.7% and averaging 17.2 points for the Sparks. Hamby is averaging 12.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/megan-gustafson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Megan Gustafson<\/a> is averaging 13.1 points for the Fire. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/emily-engstler-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Engstler<\/a> is averaging 13.5 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Sparks: 3-7, averaging 80.6 points, 31.1 rebounds, 21.5 assists, 9.3 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 44.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 86.7 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Fire: 3-7, averaging 83.7 points, 32.5 rebounds, 19.3 assists, 8.2 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 43.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 88.0 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">INJURIES: Sparks: None listed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Fire: Teja Oblak: out (knee), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/bridget-carleton-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bridget Carleton<\/a>: out (ankle), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/sarah-ashlee-barker-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Ashlee Barker<\/a>: out for season (knee), Sania Feagin: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Fire (16-26, 6-15 Western Conference) at Los Angeles Sparks (15-26, 8-12 Western Conference) Los Angeles; Sunday, 7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[49796,48944,60422,230765,3029,336230,4385,12077,92929,99,434,13016],"class_list":["post-853027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-bridget-carleton","tag-dearica-hamby","tag-emily-engstler","tag-event_preview","tag-los-angeles-sparks","tag-megan-dileo","tag-nneka-ogwumike","tag-portland-fire","tag-sarah-ashlee-barker","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853027","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=853027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}