{"id":747728,"date":"2026-05-30T07:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/747728\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T07:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:18:15","slug":"mystics-vs-sparks-final-score-washington-loses-92-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/747728\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystics vs. Sparks final score: Washington loses, 92-87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Washington Mystics dropped a close one to the Los Angeles Sparks on Friday night in a 92-87 home defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Washington led 25-21 after the opening quarter behind seven points from Shakira Austin and six more from Kiki Iriafen. But the Sparks responded with a dominant second quarter to take a 42-37 advantage into halftime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Erica Wheeler starred in the second half to finish with a team-high 21 points on 8-for-16 shooting as Los Angeles took an eight-point lead into the final quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Austin\u2019s paint dominance continued in the fourth quarter as she brought Washington all the way back to knot the contest at 81. The 6-foot-5 forward finished with a game-high 25 points on 8-for-10 FG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">But the Sparks had every answer. Nneka Ogwumike drilled a go-ahead triple with less than two minutes remaining to regain the lead before consecutive Sonia Citron layups made it 86-85 Sparks with 44 seconds to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Wheeler and Austin traded buckets before Wheeler\u2019s free throws put Los Angeles back up by three with 15.8 seconds remaining. Iriafen got a clean look at the game-tying triple but missed, which led to game-sealing free throws to give the Sparks a narrow road victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Citron finished with 21 points and eight assists on 7-for-10 FG. Iriafen tallied 13 points and nine rebounds on 6-for-10 FG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Mystics dropped a close one to the Los Angeles Sparks on Friday night in a 92-87&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,6,682,4518,468,30656,3892,683],"class_list":["post-747728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-wizards","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-washington","tag-washington-mystics","tag-washington-wizards","tag-washington-mystics-recaps","tag-washingtonwizards","tag-wizards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116662311541084048","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}