{"id":116777,"date":"2025-08-03T23:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/116777\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T23:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:29:09","slug":"alaskas-alissa-pili-signs-7-day-contract-with-los-angeles-sparks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/116777\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska\u2019s Alissa Pili signs 7-day contract with Los Angeles Sparks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Los Angeles Sparks have signed Alaska\u2019s Alissa Pili to a 7-day contract, the WNBA franchise announced Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pili, who was drafted by the Minnesota Lynx with the 8th pick of the 2023 WNBA draft, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adn.com\/2025\/07\/13\/alaskas-alissa-pili-waived-by-wnbas-minnesota-lynx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.adn.com\/2025\/07\/13\/alaskas-alissa-pili-waived-by-wnbas-minnesota-lynx\/\">released last month by the Lynx<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sparks head coach Lynne Roberts is very familiar with Pili. Roberts coached Pili at the University of Utah for the forward\u2019s final two collegiate seasons. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pili thrived under Roberts and was named 2023 Pac-12 Player of the Year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 36 games over two WNBA seasons, Pili, 24, is averaging 2.2 points and 1.2 rebounds per game, while shooting 43.3% from the field and 34.2% from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Before attending Utah, Pili played locally at Dimond High and went on to USC for two years before transferring for her final two campaigns. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Sparks are 12-15 and currently have the 10th best record in the WNBA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Sparks have signed Alaska\u2019s Alissa Pili to a 7-day contract, the WNBA franchise announced Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[73147,1339,1582,276,14186,2961,224,5337,1519,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-116777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-alissa-pili","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-climate-pledge-arena","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-minnesota-lynx","17":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116777","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=116777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}