Los Angeles Sparks (19-21, 8-13 Western Conference) at Atlanta Dream (27-14, 13-6 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
College Park, Georgia; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles Sparks visits the Atlanta Dream after Dearica Hamby scored 21 points in the Sparks’ 86-75 loss to the Atlanta Dream.<\/p>\n
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The Dream have gone 14-6 at home. Atlanta is 4-4 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
The Sparks are 11-9 on the road. Los Angeles ranks eighth in the WNBA with 25.2 defensive rebounds per game led by Azura Stevens averaging 6.1.<\/p>\n
Atlanta scores 83.7 points per game, 4.2 fewer points than the 87.9 Los Angeles gives up. Los Angeles averages 8.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.1 more made shots on average than the 6.7 per game Atlanta gives up.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the third time this season. The Dream won 86-75 in the last matchup on Sept. 3.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Brionna Jones is averaging 13 points and 7.4 rebounds for the Dream. Rhyne Howard is averaging 18.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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Hamby is scoring 18.3 points per game and averaging 8.0 rebounds for the Sparks. Rickea Jackson is averaging 2.9 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Dream: 7-3, averaging 82.1 points, 37.2 rebounds, 20.5 assists, 6.3 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 43.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 73.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
Sparks: 5-5, averaging 86.1 points, 32.8 rebounds, 21.1 assists, 7.9 steals and 2.9 blocks per game while shooting 46.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 88.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Dream: None listed.<\/p>\n
Sparks: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Sparks (19-21, 8-13 Western Conference) at Atlanta Dream (27-14, 13-6 Eastern Conference) College Park, Georgia; Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1503,9777,2598,1582,276,10589,1518,2961,224,1488,5337,8730,1521,10594,2599,10585,7184],"class_list":{"0":"post-199167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-atlanta-dream","9":"tag-azura-stevens","10":"tag-brionna-jones","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-dearica-hamby","14":"tag-eastern-conference","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-los-angeles-sparks","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-points-per-game","20":"tag-rhyne-howard","21":"tag-rickea-jackson","22":"tag-the-dream","23":"tag-the-sparks","24":"tag-western-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115145272490622312","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199167","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=199167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}