Mercury 86-78 Sparks (13 Aug, 2018) Box Score

Los Angeles Sparks

18-13, 8-7 away

	1	2	3	4	T
LA	22	12	20	24	78
PHX	21	20	26	19	86

Phoenix Mercury

18-14, 7-8 home

Los Angeles Sparks

starters
Candace ParkerC. Parker#3
Nneka OgwumikeN. Ogwumike#30
Alana BeardA. Beard#0
Odyssey SimsO. Sims#1
Chelsea GrayC. Gray#12
bench
Essence CarsonE. Carson#17
Jantel LavenderJ. Lavender#42
Maria VadeevaM. Vadeeva#10
Riquna WilliamsR. Williams#2
Sydney WieseS. Wiese#24
Karlie SamuelsonK. Samuelson#44
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
31	8-16	3-7	4-7	1	7	8	2	1	0	2	2	-12	23
26	5-9	1-2	2-2	1	1	2	3	2	0	0	2	0	13
22	0-3	0-0	0-0	2	1	3	2	2	0	0	3	-2	0
26	1-6	0-0	0-0	2	4	6	6	0	0	2	4	+9	2
27	2-7	0-2	3-4	0	6	6	3	1	0	3	3	-12	7
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
19	1-5	0-0	2-2	0	0	0	1	2	0	2	0	-11	4
8	0-2	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	2	-6	0
15	7-9	2-3	0-0	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	5	+2	16
24	5-12	3-7	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	-14	13
2	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+3	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	+3	0
	29-69	9-21	11-15	7	21	28	19	10	0	9	22		78
	42.0%	42.9%	73.3%

Phoenix Mercury

starters
DeWanna BonnerD. Bonner#24
Stephanie TalbotS. Talbot#8
Brittney GrinerB. Griner#42
Diana TaurasiD. Taurasi#3
Briann JanuaryB. January#12
bench
Camille LittleC. Little#20
Devereaux PetersD. Peters#14
Leilani MitchellL. Mitchell#5
Yvonne TurnerY. Turner#6
Angel RobinsonA. Robinson#0
Marie GuelichM. Guelich#21
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
38	10-21	5-11	6-9	0	8	8	2	2	0	1	2	+9	31
31	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	2	2	2	1	3	3	2	+2	0
36	8-13	0-0	4-6	2	11	13	3	1	3	1	4	+3	20
38	6-9	2-5	6-6	0	5	5	14	2	0	5	4	+8	20
28	2-4	1-3	0-0	1	1	2	2	0	0	2	3	-1	5
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
6	0-1	0-1	2-2	1	1	2	1	0	0	1	1	-5	2
4	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	+5	0
6	0-2	0-2	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	-3	0
12	3-3	2-2	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	+22	8
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	29-55	10-25	18-23	4	28	32	25	6	6	15	17		86
	52.7%	40.0%	78.3%

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

Regular Season Series

LA wins 2-1

Mercury
72
Sparks
80

Game 1

27/5

Mercury
75
Sparks
78

Game 2

6/8

Sparks
78
Mercury
86

Game 3

13/8

Footprint Center

12:00 AM, 13 August 2018

Phoenix, AZ

Attendance: 10,618

Referees:
Brenda Pantoja
Tiara Cruse
Brenda Pantoja
Maj Forsberg

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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Regular Season Series

LA wins 2-1

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