{"id":86913,"date":"2025-08-16T09:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T09:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/86913\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T09:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T09:33:11","slug":"storm-squanders-big-lead-holds-on-to-beat-streaking-dream-80-78-and-end-6-game-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/86913\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm squanders big lead, holds on to beat streaking Dream 80-78 and end 6-game skid"},"content":{"rendered":"

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia \u2014 Skylar Diggins had 21 points and 11 assists and the Seattle Storm hung on to beat the Atlanta Dream 80-78 to end a six-game skid on Friday night at Rogers Arena in the first WNBA regular-season game outside of the United States.<\/p>\n

Nneka Ogwumike scored 15 points, Brittney Sykes added 13 and Dominique Malonga had 12 points and eight rebounds as the Storm (17-17) squandered a 15-point lead before snapping Atlanta’s six-game win streak.<\/p>\n

Rhyne Howard scored 21 points and Brionna Jones had 18 points and 10 rebounds for Atlanta (21-12).<\/p>\n

The Storm led 60-45 with 3:25 left in the third quarter. Erica Wheeler, with a second left in the quarter, threw and inbounds pass to Diggins for a 3-pointer as time expired to give the Storm a 67-55 lead.<\/p>\n

But Seattle went scoreless for nearly five minutes to open the fourth and Nia Coffey made a layup that gave Atlanta a 71-69 lead with 4:21 to play.<\/p>\n

Howard, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2021 draft, hit a 3-pointer in the first quarter to break the Dream’s career record for made 3s with 326. Tiffany Hayes (325) previously held the record.<\/p>\n

The Dream, who went into the game averaging 9.6 made 3s per game, hit 2 of 13 from behind the arc.<\/p>\n

Jordin Canada (hamstring) did not play for Atlanta.<\/p>\n

Howard scored 25 points Wednesday to help the Dream beat the Storm 85-75 in Seattle.<\/p>\n

The Storm concludes a three-game home stand Sunday against Phoenix. The Dream play at Golden State on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER, British Columbia \u2014 Skylar Diggins had 21 points and 11 assists and the Seattle Storm hung on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[5786,7074,5460,4233,4391,4386,99,4388,434],"class_list":["post-86913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-atlanta","tag-dream","tag-game","tag-lead","tag-points","tag-skylar-diggins","tag-sports","tag-storm","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86913","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=86913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}