{"id":106825,"date":"2025-07-31T06:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T06:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/106825\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T06:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T06:08:12","slug":"despite-paige-bueckers-late-push-dallas-wings-run-out-of-answers-in-loss-to-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/106825\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Paige Bueckers\u2019 late push, Dallas Wings run out of answers in loss to Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

ARLINGTON (AP) \u2014 Naz Hillmon made the tiebreaking 3-pointer with 2.6 seconds left and scored 12 of her career-high 21 points in the fourth quarter, leading the Atlanta Dream to an 88-85 victory over the Dallas Wings<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Allisha Gray had 15 points, Brionna Jones scored 14 and Maya Caldwell added a season-high 13 points for Atlanta (16-11).<\/p>\n

Paige Bueckers<\/a> scored 21 points for the Wings, nine in the last five minutes, and has 11 20-point games this season.<\/p>\n

Bueckers hit a 3-pointer that gave Dallas a one-point lead with 2:36 to play. Brionna Jones answered with a bucket inside but Bueckers was fouled as she made a driving layup and hit the free throw to make it 83-81 with 2 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n

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Te-Hina Paopao hit a driving layup and then made a backdoor cut, caught a pass from Jones and made a layup to give the Dream a two-point lead with 34 seconds left. Arike Ogunbowale answered with a fadeaway jumper with 21 seconds to go before Hillmon hit the winner.<\/p>\n

Gray scored 11 points to help Atlanta take a 26-21 lead going into the second quarter. The Wings are 2-13 this season when trailing at the end of the first.<\/p>\n

Atlanta\u2019s Brittney Griner was called for two technical fouls moments apart while arguing a foul called and was ejected less than a minute into the third quarter. <\/a>Jordin Canada (illness) did not play.<\/p>\n

Dallas (8-20) went into the game following a 92-82 win over the New York Liberty,<\/a> the defending WNBA champions.<\/p>\n

The Wings wrap up a four-game homestand Friday against Indiana and the Dream take on Phoenix at home.<\/p>\n

Find more Wings coverage from <\/b>The Dallas Morning News<\/b> here<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON (AP) \u2014 Naz Hillmon made the tiebreaking 3-pointer with 2.6 seconds left and scored 12 of her…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":106826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,2339,347,1596,2470,2471,62,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,14378,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-106825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arike-ogunbowale","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-dallas-wings","13":"tag-paige-bueckers","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa","23":"tag-wings","24":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114946356314899690","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106825","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=106825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}