Sparks 84-74 Mercury (9 Aug, 2019) Box Score

Phoenix Mercury

11-11, 4-9 away

	1	2	3	4	T
PHX	15	17	16	26	74
LA	25	19	18	22	84

Los Angeles Sparks

14-8, 8-2 home

Phoenix Mercury

starters
DeWanna BonnerD. Bonner#24
Brianna TurnerB. Turner#21
Brittney GrinerB. Griner#42
Leilani MitchellL. Mitchell#5
Yvonne TurnerY. Turner#6
bench
Camille LittleC. Little#20
Asia TaylorA. Taylor#0
Arica CarterA. Carter#1
Sophie CunninghamS. Cunningham#9
Sancho LyttleS. Lyttle#31
Essence CarsonE. Carson#17
Alanna SmithA. Smith#11
Diana TaurasiD. Taurasi#3
Briann JanuaryB. January#12
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
31	2-11	0-5	6-7	0	5	5	1	1	3	2	4	-12	10
23	1-6	0-0	2-2	8	6	14	0	0	1	1	1	-14	4
33	10-17	0-0	7-9	1	5	6	0	1	1	1	1	-7	27
33	6-11	4-7	3-3	0	2	2	5	0	0	3	3	-10	19
31	2-10	2-6	2-2	1	6	7	5	1	0	4	2	-5	8
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
19	1-2	0-1	0-0	0	1	1	2	0	0	1	2	-4	2
5	0-2	0-0	0-0	3	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	+5	0
7	0-2	0-2	0-0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	-2	0
19	0-2	0-1	4-4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	-1	4
DNP-KNEE INJURY
DNP-CALF INJURY
DNP-ANKLE INJURY
DNP-BACK INJURY
DNP-FOOT INJURY
	22-63	6-22	24-27	13	25	38	15	4	5	14	17		74
	34.9%	27.3%	88.9%

Los Angeles Sparks

starters
Candace ParkerC. Parker#3
Nneka OgwumikeN. Ogwumike#30
Tierra Ruffin-PrattT. Ruffin-Pratt#10
Chelsea GrayC. Gray#12
Sydney WieseS. Wiese#24
bench
Chiney OgwumikeC. Ogwumike#13
Maria VadeevaM. Vadeeva#7
Alexis JonesA. Jones#1
Marina MabreyM. Mabrey#5
Kalani BrownK. Brown#21
Alana BeardA. Beard#0
Riquna WilliamsR. Williams#2
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
29	3-8	1-3	5-7	1	10	11	6	0	1	2	1	+18	12
27	9-13	2-4	4-4	2	5	7	3	2	0	1	3	+11	24
31	1-4	1-2	0-0	0	3	3	2	1	1	1	3	+12	3
34	4-13	0-3	2-3	0	3	3	5	2	0	5	2	+7	10
29	4-4	3-3	1-1	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	+14	12
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
11	1-5	0-0	0-0	1	1	2	0	2	0	2	5	-4	2
11	2-4	1-2	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	3	-3	5
14	3-4	1-1	0-0	1	1	2	3	0	0	1	1	+1	7
13	4-8	1-5	0-0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	2	-6	9
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-HAMSTRING
DNP-SUSPENDED BY LEAGUE
	31-63	10-23	12-15	5	25	30	22	8	2	13	21		84
	49.2%	43.5%	80.0%

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

Regular Season Series

LA wins 2-1

Sparks
85
Mercury
68

Game 1

15/6

Sparks
72
Mercury
82

Game 2

23/6

Mercury
74
Sparks
84

Game 3

9/8

crypto.com Arena

3:00 AM, 9 August 2019

Los Angeles, CA

Attendance: 10,345

Referees:
Roy Gulbeyan
Janetta Graham
John Butler

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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