{"id":1027183,"date":"2026-08-27T10:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T10:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1027183\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T10:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T10:14:15","slug":"portland-faces-atlanta-looks-to-halt-3-game-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1027183\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland faces Atlanta, looks to halt 3-game skid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland Fire<\/a> (15-23, 6-12 Western Conference) at Atlanta Dream<\/a> (25-13, 11-5 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

College Park, Georgia; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Portland Fire comes into the matchup with Atlanta Dream as losers of three straight games.<\/p>\n

The Dream have gone 12-6 in home games. Atlanta ranks fourth in the WNBA<\/a> giving up 85.4 points per game while holding opponents to 47.4% shooting.<\/p>\n

The Fire are 7-12 on the road. Portland ranks eighth in the Western Conference with 30.3 rebounds per game led by Emily Engstler<\/a> averaging 5.6.<\/p>\n

Atlanta is shooting 44.0% from the field this season, 2.7 percentage points lower than the 46.7% Portland allows to opponents. Portland’s 45.0% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.4 percentage points lower than Atlanta has given up to its opponents (47.4%).<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the third time this season. In the last matchup on July 11 the Fire won 102-92 led by 17 points from Megan Gustafson<\/a>, while Allisha Gray<\/a> scored 20 points for the Dream.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Gray is averaging 19.4 points for the Dream. Rhyne Howard<\/a> is averaging 21.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Bridget Carleton<\/a> is averaging 14.6 points and 1.6 steals for the Fire. Gustafson is averaging 14.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Dream: 7-3, averaging 95.7 points, 38.2 rebounds, 22.7 assists, 7.5 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 44.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 85.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Fire: 4-6, averaging 90.6 points, 32.6 rebounds, 21.6 assists, 7.1 steals and 3.0 blocks per game while shooting 45.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 92.9 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Dream: Brionna Jones: out (leg).<\/p>\n

Fire: Serah Williams: day to day (illness), Sarah Ashlee Barker<\/a>: 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 (15-23, 6-12 Western Conference) at Atlanta Dream (25-13, 11-5 Eastern Conference) College Park, Georgia; Friday, 7:30…\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":[1522,1503,27273,202653,255655,388198,60094,1521,115167,62,67,132,68,232,12860],"class_list":["post-1027183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-allisha-gray","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-bridget-carleton","tag-emily-engstler","tag-event_preview","tag-megan-dileo","tag-portland-fire","tag-rhyne-howard","tag-sarah-ashlee-barker","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wnba","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117166949327972782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027183","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=1027183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027183\/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=1027183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}