{"id":1020582,"date":"2026-08-24T08:10:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T08:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1020582\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T08:10:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T08:10:50","slug":"dallas-hosts-portland-after-bueckers-32-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1020582\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas hosts Portland after Bueckers’ 32-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland Fire<\/a> (15-22, 6-11 Western Conference) at Dallas Wings<\/a> (22-16, 9-9 Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Arlington, Texas; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Dallas Wings hosts the Portland Fire after Paige Bueckers<\/a> scored 32 points in the Dallas Wings’ 92-70 win against the Seattle Storm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Wings have gone 9-9 against Western Conference opponents. Dallas ranks fifth in the Western Conference with 37.9 points per game in the paint led by Jessica Shepard<\/a> averaging 10.4.<\/p>\n

The Fire are 6-11 against Western Conference opponents. Portland has a 7-14 record against teams above .500.<\/p>\n

Dallas averages 88.6 points per game, 2.7 fewer points than the 91.3 Portland allows. Portland has shot at a 45.2% clip from the field this season, 0.3 percentage points less than the 45.5% shooting opponents of Dallas have averaged.<\/p>\n

The two teams square off for the third time this season. The Wings defeated the Fire 101-97 in their last matchup on July 23. Arike Ogunbowale<\/a> led the Wings with 24 points, and Megan Gustafson<\/a> led the Fire with 21 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Shepard is scoring 14.2 points per game and averaging 11.1 rebounds for the Wings. Bueckers is averaging 20.3 points and 3.9 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Bridget Carleton<\/a> is averaging 14.7 points and 1.6 steals for the Fire. Gustafson is averaging 14.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Wings: 4-6, averaging 85.0 points, 34.1 rebounds, 19.8 assists, 6.1 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 45.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 85.6 points per game.<\/p>\n

Fire: 4-6, averaging 91.1 points, 32.6 rebounds, 21.4 assists, 6.8 steals and 2.8 blocks per game while shooting 45.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 93.1 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Wings: Azzi Fudd: out for season (knee), Aziaha James: out (leg).<\/p>\n

Fire: Sarah Ashlee Barker: out for season (knee), Sania Feagin: 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":"Portland Fire (15-22, 6-11 Western Conference) at Dallas Wings (22-16, 9-9 Western Conference) Arlington, Texas; Tuesday, 8 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":999469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,2339,27273,1596,2470,255655,96323,388198,2471,60094,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,12860],"class_list":["post-1020582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-arike-ogunbowale","tag-bridget-carleton","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-wings","tag-event_preview","tag-jessica-shepard","tag-megan-dileo","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-portland-fire","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117149478706116642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020582","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=1020582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020582\/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=1020582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}