Indiana Fever (7-8) at Atlanta Dream (6-8)

Date: Friday, July 7, 2017
Time: 7:30 p.m. (EDT)
Site: Hank McCamish Pavilion (Atlanta, GA)
TV: FOX Sports Indiana
Live Stream: FOX Sports GO, WNBA League Pass

Probable Starters
Fever: F- Shenise Johnson, F- Candice Dupree, C- Erlana Larkins, G- Erica Wheeler, G- Briann January
Dream: F- Tiffany Hayes, F- Sancho Lyttle, C- Elizabeth Williams, G- Brittney Sykes, G- Layshia Clarendon

The Fever travel to Atlanta to take on the Dream on Friday night in McCamish Pavilion, the site of Atlanta’s new home court and the 30th different venue at which the Fever have ever played. The Fever beat Atlanta 85-74 on June 15 in Indianapolis in the teams’ only meeting this season.

The Fever started the season slowly on the road, but have won their past two away from Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Erlana Larkins has been key in the team’s past two road wins, averaging 14 points per game and shooting a combined 12-of-17 (70 percent) from the field. Candice Dupree has averaged 17.5 points and six rebounds in those wins. Briann January contributed exactly 10 points and seven assists in both road contests.

Practice Report

Storylines & Promotion
• The Fever fell to the Connecticut Sun, 91-85, Saturday afternoon. Shenise Johnson scored 22 points to lead the Fever, while Erica Wheeler added 16. Candice Dupree had her second Fever double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds.

• Johnson’s 22 points was her second-highest total of the season. She scored a career-high 24 points May 14 at Seattle in Indiana’s season-opener.

• The Dream lost at Dallas on Wednesday night, 94-84, to drop their fourth game in the past five outings. Tiffany Hayes paced Atlanta with 16 points, Brittney Sykes added 15.

• Atlanta’s Hayes leads Eastern Conference guards in All-Star voting. Tiffany Mitchell is second. At last release, Hayes had 4,288 votes and Mitchell had 4,202.

• Mitchell has been a key contributor off the bench for the Fever. She has reached double-figure scoring 10 times in 15 games, but when she scores less than 10 points, the Fever are 1-4.

• The Fever defense faces an Atlanta offense that is last in the WNBA in field goal percentage, as the Dream convert just 40.3 percent of their shots. Atlanta also makes a league-low 23.8 percent of its 3-pointers.

• Indiana has had a rough patch rebounding the basketball, but Atlanta allows its opponents to collect the most rebounds in the WNBA at 38 per game.

• Erica Wheeler has scored in double figures in seven of the past eight contests. She’s averaging 15.6 points and 4.1 assists per game in that stretch. When Wheeler hits at least 50 percent of her shots, Indiana is 4-1.

• Dupree has scored in double figures in the past nine games, and in 13 of the team’s 15 games total. The Fever are 0-2 when she doesn’t reach that mark, and are 5-1 when she pours in at least 17 points.

• When Briann January has at least four assists, the Fever are 5-0. When she doesn’t, the team is 0-7.

• Wheeler started her career with the Dream in 2015. Atlanta’s starting point guard is Layshia Clarendon who was acquired in a trade with Indiana prior to the 2016 season.

• The Fever are 20-18 all-time against the Dream. This will be the first time the Fever play in McCamish Pavilion on the campus of Georgia Tech University. Atlanta won its 2016 home game against Indiana at Philips Arena, where the Dream played since 2008, but the Fever won the previous four road games against the Dream in 2014 and 2015.