{"id":856461,"date":"2026-09-22T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T09:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/856461\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T09:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T09:50:11","slug":"dallas-faces-seattle-after-bueckers-30-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/856461\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas faces Seattle after Bueckers’ 30-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Wings<\/a> (26-17, 12-10 Western Conference) at Seattle Storm<\/a> (8-35, 1-21 Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Seattle; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Dallas Wings visits the Seattle Storm after Paige Bueckers<\/a> scored 30 points in the Wings’ 87-86 loss to the Phoenix Mercury.<\/p>\n

The Storm are 1-21 against Western Conference opponents. Seattle is sixth in the WNBA<\/a> with 34.0 rebounds led by Dominique Malonga<\/a> averaging 8.8.<\/p>\n

The Wings are 12-10 in Western Conference play. Dallas ranks fourth in the WNBA with 34.7 rebounds per game. Jessica Shepard<\/a> leads the Wings with 11.1.<\/p>\n

Seattle is shooting 42.2% from the field this season, 2.5 percentage points lower than the 44.7% Dallas allows to opponents. Dallas averages 89.1 points per game, 0.5 more than the 88.6 Seattle allows to opponents.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the fourth time this season. The Wings won the last matchup 92-70 on Aug. 23. Bueckers scored 32 points to help lead the Wings to the win.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Malonga is scoring 16.8 points per game and averaging 8.8 rebounds for the Storm. Flau’jae Johnson is averaging 14.6 points and 3.3 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Shepard is averaging 14.3 points, 11.1 rebounds and 5.1 assists for the Wings. Bueckers is averaging 2.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Storm: 2-8, averaging 79.7 points, 35.5 rebounds, 18.6 assists, 8.4 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 38.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 89.6 points per game.<\/p>\n

Wings: 7-3, averaging 89.7 points, 36.5 rebounds, 22.4 assists, 6.8 steals and 6.4 blocks per game while shooting 47.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 81.4 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Storm: Zia Cooke<\/a>: day to day (knee), Ezi Magbegor: out for season (acl), Katie Lou Samuelson<\/a>: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n

Wings: Alanna Smith: out (leg), Azzi Fudd: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Wings (26-17, 12-10 Western Conference) at Seattle Storm (8-35, 1-21 Western Conference) Seattle; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EDT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2834,56300,230765,66744,258822,2833,4676,99,434,13016,8216],"class_list":["post-856461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-dallas-wings","tag-dominique-malonga","tag-event_preview","tag-jessica-shepard","tag-katie-lou-samuelson","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-seattle-storm","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-national-basketball-association","tag-zia-cooke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856461","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=856461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}