Mercury 75-72 Sparks (23 Aug, 2014) Box Score

Los Angeles Sparks

16-18, 9-8 away

	1	2	3	4	T
LA	12	22	19	19	72
PHX	13	22	21	19	75

Phoenix Mercury

29-5, 16-1 home

Los Angeles Sparks

starters
Candace ParkerC. Parker#3
Jantel LavenderJ. Lavender#42
Nneka OgwumikeN. Ogwumike#30
Alana BeardA. Beard#0
Kristi ToliverK. Toliver#20
bench
Sandrine GrudaS. Gruda#7
Armintie HerringtonA. Herrington#22
Candice WigginsC. Wiggins#2
Lindsey HardingL. Harding#10
Farhiya AbdiF. Abdi#13
Nikki GreeneN. Greene#54
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
40	10-19	0-1	2-4	1	6	7	4	1	3	5	3	-3	22
28	5-11	0-0	0-0	4	3	7	2	1	0	1	3	-2	10
27	5-7	0-0	2-2	1	5	6	0	1	0	1	5	-11	12
26	4-10	0-1	0-0	1	4	5	2	2	0	0	4	-3	8
34	6-11	1-3	0-0	0	3	3	4	1	0	3	4	-2	13
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
25	2-9	0-0	1-2	2	2	4	2	0	3	1	1	+7	5
9	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	+1	0
5	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	-3	0
6	1-2	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	1	2	0	0	0	+1	2
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	33-70	1-6	5-8	9	25	34	16	9	6	12	24		72
	47.1%	16.7%	62.5%

Phoenix Mercury

starters
Penny TaylorP. Taylor#13
Candice DupreeC. Dupree#4
DeWanna BonnerD. Bonner#24
Brittney GrinerB. Griner#42
Diana TaurasiD. Taurasi#3
bench
Mistie McCray BassM. Bass#8
Shay MurphyS. Murphy#14
Erin PhillipsE. Phillips#31
Ewelina KobrynE. Kobryn#11
Anete Jekabsone-ZogotaA. Jekabsone-Zogota#10
Tiffany BiasT. Bias#23
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
33	2-8	0-3	3-4	0	6	6	7	3	0	1	1	+7	7
34	6-11	0-1	1-2	1	6	7	1	1	0	1	1	+4	13
39	3-11	1-4	6-6	1	3	4	1	2	0	4	3	+8	13
34	2-11	0-0	2-2	1	6	7	1	1	3	2	4	+11	6
36	10-15	6-9	8-8	0	2	2	3	1	0	6	1	+6	34
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
12	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-9	2
1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-2	0
11	0-2	0-2	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	-10	0
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	24-59	7-19	20-22	3	23	26	14	8	3	14	12		75
	40.7%	36.8%	90.9%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Sparks
72
Mercury
75

Game 1

23/8

Mercury
93
Sparks
68

Game 2

25/8

Footprint Center

3:00 AM, 23 August 2014

Phoenix, AZ

Attendance: 11,591

Referees:
Sue Blauch
Billy Smith
Thomas Nunez

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Minnesota	30	10	.750	-	L1
Las Vegas	27	13	.675	3	W5
Seattle	25	15	.625	5	W1
Phoenix	19	21	.475	11	L1
Dallas	9	31	.225	21	L9
Los Angeles	8	32	.200	22	W1

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