{"id":855245,"date":"2026-09-21T08:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/855245\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T08:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:42:09","slug":"portland-fire-drop-fourth-straight-in-105-84-loss-to-sparks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/855245\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Fire drop fourth straight in 105-84 loss to Sparks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, Ca. (KATU) &#8211;  \u2014 The Portland Fire fell to the Los Angeles Sparks 105-84 on the road Sunday night, marking their fourth straight loss and seventh in their past eight games.<\/p>\n<p>Portland trailed by just two points, 28-26, after a tightly contested first quarter. But the second quarter is where things fell apart for the Fire, as the Sparks outscored them 32-15 to take a 60-41 halftime lead. The Fire could not make up the deficit in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>It was not Portland\u2019s best night from 3-point range. The Fire were just 6-of-27 from beyond the arc, shooting 22%.<\/p>\n<p>Carla Leite led Portland with 23 points on 7-of-10 shooting from the field. Charisma Osborne added 13 points.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Los Angeles swept the three-game season series against Portland.<\/p>\n<p>The Fire return home Tuesday to host the Golden State Valkyries in the final game of their inaugural season. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES, Ca. (KATU) &#8211; \u2014 The Portland Fire fell to the Los Angeles Sparks 105-84 on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-855245","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\/855245","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=855245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}