{"id":1001873,"date":"2026-08-15T06:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1001873\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T06:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:43:14","slug":"howard-leads-atlanta-against-indiana-after-29-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1001873\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard leads Atlanta against Indiana after 29-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indiana Fever<\/a> (22-12, 9-4 Eastern Conference) at Atlanta Dream<\/a> (21-12, 11-4 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Atlanta; Sunday, 5 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Atlanta Dream hosts the Indiana Fever after Rhyne Howard<\/a> scored 29 points in the Atlanta Dream’s 104-69 win over the Connecticut Sun.<\/p>\n

The Dream are 11-4 in conference play. Atlanta is the top team in the Eastern Conference with 12.0 fast break points.<\/p>\n

The Fever are 9-4 against Eastern Conference teams. Indiana has a 9-10 record against opponents above .500.<\/p>\n

Atlanta’s average of 8.5 made 3-pointers per game this season is only 0.8 more made shots on average than the 7.7 per game Indiana allows. Indiana has shot at a 48.8% clip from the field this season, 0.8 percentage points greater than the 48.0% shooting opponents of Atlanta have averaged.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the fourth time this season. The Dream won the last matchup 113-96 on June 20, with Howard scoring 24 points in the win.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Angel Reese<\/a> is shooting 42.2% and averaging 15.6 points for the Dream. Allisha Gray<\/a> is averaging 20.5 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Caitlin Clark<\/a> is averaging 21.9 points and 8.2 assists for the Fever. Kelsey Mitchell<\/a> is averaging 3.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Dream: 8-2, averaging 95.3 points, 36.8 rebounds, 23.2 assists, 8.0 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 45.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 87.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Fever: 8-2, averaging 103.6 points, 31.5 rebounds, 21.4 assists, 7.6 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 53.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 93.5 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Dream: Te-Hina Paopao: out (leg), Indya Nivar: day to day (personal).<\/p>\n

Fever: Damiris Dantas: 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":"Indiana Fever (22-12, 9-4 Eastern Conference) at Atlanta Dream (21-12, 11-4 Eastern Conference) Atlanta; Sunday, 5 p.m. EDT…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":999469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49],"tags":[1522,1496,1503,233,255655,234,1493,1521,62,67,132,68,232,12860],"class_list":["post-1001873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-allisha-gray","tag-angel-reese","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-event_preview","tag-indiana-fever","tag-kelsey-mitchell","tag-rhyne-howard","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wnba","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117098172093421914","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/999469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}