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VANCOUVER, British Columbia \u2014 Skylar Diggins had 21 points and 11 assists and the Seattle Storm hung on to beat the Atlanta Dream 80-78 to end a six-game skid on Friday night at Rogers Arena in the first WNBA regular-season game outside of the United States.<\/p>\n
Nneka Ogwumike scored 15 points, Brittney Sykes added 13 and Dominique Malonga had 12 points and eight rebounds as the Storm (17-17) squandered a 15-point lead before snapping Atlanta’s six-game win streak.<\/p>\n
Rhyne Howard scored 21 points and Brionna Jones had 18 points and 10 rebounds for Atlanta (21-12).<\/p>\n
The Storm led 60-45 with 3:25 left in the third quarter. Erica Wheeler, with a second left in the quarter, threw and inbounds pass to Diggins for a 3-pointer as time expired to give the Storm a 67-55 lead.<\/p>\n
But Seattle went scoreless for nearly five minutes to open the fourth and Nia Coffey made a layup that gave Atlanta a 71-69 lead with 4:21 to play.<\/p>\n
Howard, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2021 draft, hit a 3-pointer in the first quarter to break the Dream’s career record for made 3s with 326. Tiffany Hayes (325) previously held the record.<\/p>\n
The Dream, who went into the game averaging 9.6 made 3s per game, hit 2 of 13 from behind the arc.<\/p>\n
Jordin Canada (hamstring) did not play for Atlanta.<\/p>\n
Howard scored 25 points Wednesday to help the Dream beat the Storm 85-75 in Seattle.<\/p>\n
The Storm concludes a three-game home stand Sunday against Phoenix. The Dream play at Golden State on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER, British Columbia \u2014 Skylar Diggins had 21 points and 11 assists and the Seattle Storm hung on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":150392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[5356,2600,1910,5615,30232,30231,62,7925,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-150391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-dream","10":"tag-game","11":"tag-lead","12":"tag-points","13":"tag-skylar-diggins","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-storm","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115038267139821748","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150391","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=150391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}