{"id":802394,"date":"2026-08-03T02:48:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/802394\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T02:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:48:58","slug":"fire-in-action-at-1230pm-against-sparks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/802394\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire in Action at 12:30pm Against Sparks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Portland Fire (11-18) will look to snap their four-game losing streak at home this afternoon at 12:30pm Pacific against the Los Angeles Sparks (10-17).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The big news from the Sparks is that they\u2019ve traded their five-time All-Star Kelsey Plum to the Phoenix Mercury for Monique Makani, a 2027 first round pick, and a 2028 second round pick. Los Angeles is on a six-game losing streak of their own, so this is a prime opportunity for Portland to pick up a much-needed win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Fire are now two spots out of the final playoff spot in 10th place, 5 and a half games behind the New York Liberty for the final spot. Today is a must-win if they have any chance of making a second-half run to the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Discuss here and we\u2019ll be back after the game with our recap!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland Fire (11-18) will look to snap their four-game losing streak at home this afternoon at 12:30pm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,37790,58374,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":["post-802394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-portland-trail-blazers","tag-basketball","tag-blazers","tag-blazers-gameday-coverage","tag-gameday-threads","tag-nba","tag-portland","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-portlandtrailblazers","tag-trail-blazers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117029303950069713","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802394","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=802394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}