{"id":1019026,"date":"2026-08-23T12:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T12:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1019026\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T12:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T12:37:21","slug":"atlanta-visits-los-angeles-seeks-25th-victory-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1019026\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta visits Los Angeles, seeks 25th victory of season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Dream<\/a> (24-13, 11-5 Eastern Conference) at Los Angeles Sparks<\/a> (13-24, 7-11 Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Los Angeles; Monday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Atlanta Dream will try to earn its 25th victory of the season when the Dream play the Los Angeles Sparks.<\/p>\n

The Sparks have gone 6-12 in home games. Los Angeles is 1-1 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n

The Dream are 12-7 in road games. Atlanta is second in the Eastern Conference giving up 85.8 points while holding opponents to 47.6% shooting.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles is shooting 46.5% from the field this season, 1.1 percentage points lower than the 47.6% Atlanta allows to opponents. Atlanta’s 44.1% shooting percentage from the field this season is 3.8 percentage points lower than Los Angeles has allowed to its opponents (47.9%).<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the third time this season. The Dream won 124-88 in the last meeting on Aug. 21. Rhyne Howard<\/a> led the Dream with 26 points, and Cameron Brink<\/a> led the Sparks with 14 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Dearica Hamby<\/a> is averaging 14.8 points, 7.1 rebounds and 1.5 steals for the Sparks. Nneka Ogwumike<\/a> is averaging 16.6 points and 8.7 rebounds over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Allisha Gray<\/a> is averaging 19.4 points for the Dream. Howard is averaging 20.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Sparks: 3-7, averaging 84.1 points, 31.9 rebounds, 22.8 assists, 7.7 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 46.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 89.8 points per game.<\/p>\n

Dream: 7-3, averaging 97.7 points, 36.7 rebounds, 23.4 assists, 8.2 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 45.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 87.7 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Sparks: None listed.<\/p>\n

Dream: Brionna Jones: out (leg).<\/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":"Atlanta Dream (24-13, 11-5 Eastern Conference) at Los Angeles Sparks (13-24, 7-11 Western Conference) Los Angeles; Monday, 10…\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":[1522,1503,10587,10589,255655,1488,2337,1521,62,67,132,68,232,12860],"class_list":["post-1019026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-allisha-gray","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-cameron-brink","tag-dearica-hamby","tag-event_preview","tag-los-angeles-sparks","tag-nneka-ogwumike","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\/117144862373266233","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019026","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=1019026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019026\/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=1019026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}