The Dallas Wings have been struggling this year, with injuries taking a major toll.
The team has dropped eight straight games and plays six of its next seven on the road. Dallas has played all season without star forward Satou Sabally (shoulder) and most of it without Natasha Howard (foot). Now the Wings are missing leading scorer Arike Ogunbowale, who is day to day with a sore Achilles tendon.
Ogunbowale is putting up the best numbers of her career, averaging 24.9 points, 5.4 assists, 4.5 rebounds and 2.9 steals. It hasn’t been enough for the Wings (3-10), who are one game ahead of last-place Washington in the standings.
The star guard also made news last week when she appeared on a podcast and explained that she took herself out of consideration a few months earlier for the U.S. Olympic team because she could see how politics was factoring into the …