{"id":92437,"date":"2025-08-18T18:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/92437\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T18:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:12:08","slug":"sparkling-numbers-aug-17-vs-mystics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/92437\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparkling Numbers \u2013 Aug. 17 vs. Mystics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rae Burrell\u00a0shot 75.0% from the field against the Mystics, scoring 10 points (3-for-4 FG, 2-for-2 3PT) in 17 minutes. Burrell also contributed two assists and one steal.<\/p>\n<p>The Sparks scored 25 points off the Mystics\u2019 18 turnovers, while the Mystics only scored eight points off the Sparks\u2019 miscues. Los Angeles also scored 46 of its 86 points in the paint, while Washington scored 34.<\/p>\n<p>With one steal against Washington,\u00a0Dearica Hamby\u00a0now holds sole possession of 10th in Sparks history with 155, surpassing\u00a0Brittney Sykes.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles only turned the ball over eight times during Sunday\u2019s game, matching its season low.<\/p>\n<p>Julie Allemand\u00a0assisted on four makes against Washington, resulting in nine points for Los Angeles. Allemand, who did not turn the ball over against the Mystics, ranks second in the W this season in assist-to-turnover ratio.<\/p>\n<p>The highest-scoring teammate duo in the WNBA this season,\u00a0Dearica Hamby\u00a0(26 PTS) and\u00a0Kelsey Plum\u00a0(25 PTS), combined for 51 of the Sparks\u2019 86 points. They became the first teammates in league history to each record at least 25 points and six assists while shooting 60.0% or higher from the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rae Burrell\u00a0shot 75.0% from the field against the Mystics, scoring 10 points (3-for-4 FG, 2-for-2 3PT) in 17&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-92437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92437","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=92437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}