Game Recap: Los Angeles Sparks 90, Seattle Storm 74 (08/30/2026)
Sparks win over the Storm 90-74.
Video Transcript
Both the Storm and Sparks have been eliminated from playoff contention, but they're both keeping their foot on the gas, each squad coming off a win.
Nneka Ogwumike playing her former team for the final time.
We start you off with the first, and it's Nneka Ogwumike off the dime from Rae Burrell, goes straight up and lays that one home, and the Sparks up nine-nothing in the early going.
Ogwumike gets in the mid post, hits the fall-away jump shot.
She had nine in the opening quarter.
It's 13-nothing now.
Dominique Malonga gets the pass, drives in, but her layup is rejected by Cameron Brink, leading to a jump ball.
The Sparks led by 14 points after the first quarter, up 25 to 11 after one.
In the second, Zia Cooke coming around for a little dribble handoff, nails the three-pointer there, and that cuts into the lead a bit.
After a steal, Rae Burrell throws a nice little bounce pass.
Just a gorgeous feed up ahead, and Dearica Hamby lays that one in.
The lead back up to 19 points.
Sparks on an 11-nothing run.
Rae Burrell gets a pass in transition from Ogwumike, goes in for a little short pull-up jumper.
She had 10 in the opening half, and the Sparks led it by 19 at the break.
In the third, after a steal by Hamby, it leads to some great ball movement in transition and an easy little layup for Ogwumike, who had 23 points and 12 rebounds in this one.
Storm making a comeback though.
Cooke to Malonga for the lefty finish.
Malonga has 17 points, 15 rebounds.
That cut the lead, well, down to 20, so it's tough to come back from that.
Great ball movement leads to a three on the wing from Flaujae Johnson.
That cuts the lead down to 12.
Erica Wheeler finds Brink at the top of the arc for a catch-and-shoot three.
She had 11 points and two blocks.
Ogwumike swings to Burrell, who drives in for the scoop layup, and one to close it out as LA goes on the road and gets a win by 16.
Final score, 90 to 74.
