{"id":833576,"date":"2026-05-31T02:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/833576\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T02:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:01:18","slug":"with-kelsey-plum-sidelined-sparks-cant-keep-pace-with-sun-in-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/833576\/","title":{"rendered":"With Kelsey Plum sidelined, Sparks can’t keep pace with Sun in loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

HARTFORD, Conn.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Aneesah Morrow<\/a> had 17 points and 14 rebounds, her fourth consecutive game with a double-double, and the Connecticut Sun beat the Sparks 84-81<\/a> on Saturday night at PeoplesBank Arena.<\/p>\n

Morrow leads the WNBA with seven double-doubles this season.<\/p>\n

Kennedy Burke scored 14 points for the Sun. Leila Lacan, who made her season debut, and Diamond Miller added 12 points apiece.<\/p>\n

Connecticut (2-8) had lost three in a row, all by double figures. The Sun tied their season high with 11 steals.<\/p>\n

Ariel Atkins<\/a> and Rae Burrell<\/a> led the Sparks<\/a> (4-4) with 16 points apiece, Erica Wheeler<\/a> scored 13 and Dearica Hamby<\/a> 11. Nneka Ogwumike<\/a> finished with 12 points and three rebounds.<\/p>\n

Wheeler made a layup 27 seconds into the fourth quarter and the Sparks didn\u2019t make another field goal until she made another layup with 3:38 to play. Ogwumike followed with a three-point play and Atkins hit two free throws to make it a three-point game less than a minute later.<\/p>\n

Burrell\u2019s three-pointer made it 81-79 with 52 seconds left, but the Sparks got no closer.<\/p>\n

Ogwumike has 3,315 career rebounds to move into a tie with Tamika Catchings for fifth on the WNBA\u2019s career list.<\/p>\n

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Connecticut\u2019s Brittney Griner (rib injury) returned from a four-game absence but left the game for good late in the first half after she was apparently poked in the eye. She finished with nine points.<\/p>\n

Lacan helped Basket Landes to a championship, and was named finals MVP, in the top French professional league earlier this month. She averaged 10.4 points, 3.7 assists and 2.2 steals as a rookie last season in 25 games for Connecticut and the Sun were 2-17 before the point guard returned from international duty and went 9-16 after.<\/p>\n

Kelsey Plum<\/a> (ankle) missed her second consecutive game for the Sparks. Plum, the WNBA\u2019s leading scorer at 28.6 points per game, will be re-evaluated on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Up next for the Sparks:<\/b> Host Las Vegas on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARTFORD, Conn.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Aneesah Morrow had 17 points and 14 rebounds, her fourth consecutive game with a double-double, and the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":833577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49],"tags":[2476,1501,2472,5610,32262,5948,305623,449,10593,24566,5950,5612,62,582,341825,67,132,68,232],"class_list":["post-833576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-aneesah-morrow","tag-ariel-atkins","tag-connecticut-sun","tag-kelsey-plum","tag-leila-lacan","tag-loss","tag-ogwumike","tag-point","tag-rae-burrell","tag-rebound","tag-season","tag-spark","tag-sports","tag-sun","tag-three-point-game","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wnba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116666727595313580","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833576","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=833576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}