{"id":93769,"date":"2025-08-19T07:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/93769\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T07:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:27:09","slug":"los-angeles-faces-dallas-after-hambys-26-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/93769\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles faces Dallas after Hamby&#8217;s 26-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/dallas-wings-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Wings<\/a> (9-26, 3-14 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> (16-18, 6-12 Western Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\">Los Angeles; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Sparks -7.5; over\/under is 180.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles Sparks takes on the Dallas Wings after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/dearica-hamby-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dearica Hamby<\/a> scored 26 points in the Los Angeles Sparks&#8217; 95-86 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/washington-mystics-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Mystics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\">The Sparks are 6-12 against Western Conference opponents. Los Angeles is 7-9 in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\">The Wings are 3-14 in Western Conference play. Dallas is fifth in the Western Conference scoring 82.1 points per game and is shooting 42.1%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\">Los Angeles&#8217; average of 9.0 made 3-pointers per game this season is just 0.2 fewer made shots on average than the 9.2 per game Dallas allows. Dallas&#8217; 42.1% shooting percentage from the field this season is 3.7 percentage points lower than Los Angeles has allowed to its opponents (45.8%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\">The teams square off for the third time this season. The Sparks won the last matchup 97-96 on Aug. 15, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/kelsey-plum-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelsey Plum<\/a> scoring 28 points in the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: Plum is averaging 20.4 points and 6.1 assists for the Sparks. Hamby is averaging 19.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/paige-bueckers-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paige Bueckers<\/a> is averaging 18.8 points, 5.4 assists and 1.7 steals for the Wings. Arike Ogunbowale is averaging 10.1 points and 1.7 rebounds while shooting 37.5% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Sparks: 6-4, averaging 91.8 points, 33.0 rebounds, 22.2 assists, 6.3 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 47.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 93.5 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\">Wings: 2-8, averaging 83.0 points, 33.7 rebounds, 21.4 assists, 6.5 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 43.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 91.1 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\">INJURIES: Sparks: None listed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\">Wings: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/tyasha-harris-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyasha Harris<\/a>: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<p>\n        What did you think of this story?\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Dallas Wings (9-26, 3-14 Western Conference) at Los Angeles Sparks (16-18, 6-12 Western Conference) Los Angeles;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-93769","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\/93769","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=93769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}