{"id":942371,"date":"2026-07-18T02:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/942371\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T02:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:15:15","slug":"chicago-sky-beat-los-angeles-sparks-96-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/942371\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Sky beat Los Angeles Sparks 96-82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rookie Sydney Taylor hit four 3-pointers and scored 19 points, and the Chicago Sky beat Los Angeles 96-82 on Friday night at Wintrust Arena as Nneka Ogwumike became the Sparks\u2019 career scoring leader.<\/p>\n<p>Ogwumike finished with 18 points and 12 rebounds, also moving past Candace Parker (3,467) into third on the WNBA\u2019s career rebounds list with 3,472.<\/p>\n<p>Kamilla Cardoso had 13 points, 11 rebounds and two blocks for the Sky (7-16). Natasha Cloud had 15 points and nine rebounds, Jacy Sheldon added 14 points and Azura Stevens scored 12.<\/p>\n<p>Dearica Hamby also scored 18 points for the Sparks (10-14) and Erica Wheeler added 14. LA has lost three consecutive games.<\/p>\n<p>Ogwumike scored 23 points Wednesday night in a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sparks-lynx-score-292a873783ad1b410438cf16f39c13eb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">96-87<\/a> loss at Minnesota to tie the mark of 6,263 points set by Lisa Leslie and hit a short jumper about three minutes into the game Friday to break the record.<\/p>\n<p>Picked No. 1 by the Sparks in 2012, Ogwumike returned to Los Angeles this season after spending the last two with Seattle. The 36-year-old forward has 7,703 career points.<\/p>\n<p>The Sky\u2019s Skylar Diggins (knee) missed her fifth consecutive game, and Kelsey Plum (leg) did not play for the Sparks.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sky:<\/strong> At Atlanta on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sparks:<\/strong> At Dallas on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rookie Sydney Taylor hit four 3-pointers and scored 19 points, and the Chicago Sky beat Los Angeles 96-82&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":942372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[9777,21899,960,1497,5386,1818,16093,1499,1488,19713,2337,30231,339631],"class_list":["post-942371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-azura-stevens","tag-candace-parker","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-sky","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-jacy-sheldon","tag-kamilla-cardoso","tag-los-angeles-sparks","tag-natasha-cloud","tag-nneka-ogwumike","tag-skylar-diggins","tag-sydney-taylor"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116938573592444729","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942371","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=942371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}