Seattle Storm at Los Angeles Sparks 9/12/21 - WNBA Picks & Predictions

The Seattle Storm look for their third consecutive victory on Sunday when visiting the Los Angeles Sparks. Seattle is 20-10 following a 105-71 victory over the Washington Mystics. Seattle announced that leading scorer and rebounder Breanna Stewart will sit out the final two games of the regular season due to an injured foot. Seattle is currently second in the Western Conference standings 1 ½ games behind first place Las Vegas. 

With Breanna Stewart out injured, the leading scorer for Seattle is Jewel Loyd with an average of 17.7 points per game and the leading rebounder is Mercedes Russell with an average of 6.1 rebounds per game. Sue Bird is the leader in assists with an average of 5.5 per game. Los Angeles has two players averaging double-figures in scoring in the absence of Stewart (20.3 ppg) .

Los Angeles looks to snap a six-game losing streak when hosting Seattle on Sunday. The Sparks are 10-19 following a 75-57 loss to the Connecticut Sun  Nneka Ogwumike was the leading scorer for Los Angeles in the loss with 12 points. Los Angeles scored just eight points in the first quarter, fell behind by 17 at halftime and could not recover.

Nneka Ogwumike is the leading scorer and leading rebounder for Los Angeles with averages of 14.1 points and 6.0 rebounds per game. Erica Wheeler is the second-leading scorer and leader in assists with averages of 13.4 points and 4.7 assists per game. Ogwumike and Wheeler are the only two players for Los Angeles averaging double-figures in scoring.