Sparks 94-71 Mercury (20 May, 2023) Box Score

Phoenix Mercury

0-1, 0-1 away

	1	2	3	4	T
PHX	22	19	14	16	71
LA	19	35	19	21	94

Los Angeles Sparks

1-0, 1-0 home

Phoenix Mercury

starters
Brianna TurnerB. Turner#21
Michaela OnyenwereM. Onyenwere#12
Brittney GrinerB. Griner#42
Diana TaurasiD. Taurasi#3
Moriah JeffersonM. Jefferson#8
bench
Liz DixonL. Dixon#20
Kadi SissokoK. Sissoko#30
Sug SuttonS. Sutton#1
Evina WestbrookE. Westbrook#2
Megan GustafsonM. Gustafson#10
Shey PeddyS. Peddy#11
Sophie CunninghamS. Cunningham#9
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
31	0-0	0-0	0-0	2	5	7	1	0	2	3	2	-27	0
26	2-6	2-3	1-2	1	3	4	3	1	0	2	5	-9	7
25	7-9	0-0	4-4	2	4	6	2	0	4	1	2	-9	18
28	4-15	1-9	6-7	0	7	7	5	0	1	7	4	-17	15
30	6-12	2-5	2-2	0	4	4	4	0	1	4	1	-18	16
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
5	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1	0
9	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	-2	2
26	4-10	1-1	1-2	1	2	3	3	1	0	2	3	-28	10
19	0-5	0-2	3-3	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	-4	3
DNP-LEFT FOOT
DNP-RIGHT ACL
DNP-LEFT KNEE
	24-59	6-20	17-20	6	28	34	18	2	8	19	20		71
	40.7%	30.0%	85.0%

Los Angeles Sparks

starters
Nneka OgwumikeN. Ogwumike#30
Chiney OgwumikeC. Ogwumike#13
Layshia ClarendonL. Clarendon#25
Lexie BrownL. Brown#4
Jordin CanadaJ. Canada#21
bench
Dearica HambyD. Hamby#5
Joyner HolmesJ. Holmes#24
Karlie SamuelsonKar. Samuelson#44
Nia CloudenN. Clouden#2
Zia CookeZ. Cooke#1
Azura StevensA. Stevens#23
Katie Lou SamuelsonKat. Samuelson#33
Jasmine ThomasJ. Thomas#15
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
27	6-13	0-1	5-5	2	2	4	3	3	1	3	2	+19	17
25	6-12	1-3	2-2	3	4	7	1	1	0	1	4	+19	15
20	2-10	1-3	0-0	0	3	3	4	2	0	0	0	+5	5
22	4-7	3-5	3-3	1	3	4	2	1	1	0	4	+12	14
30	2-9	0-3	1-2	1	2	3	5	2	0	1	1	+19	5
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
15	1-7	0-1	7-8	0	3	3	1	0	0	0	2	+7	9
13	1-6	0-2	0-0	2	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	+1	2
26	2-3	2-2	7-7	1	2	3	1	0	0	1	2	+22	13
6	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	-3	0
15	5-6	2-2	2-2	1	1	2	2	1	0	0	1	+14	14
DNP-BACK
DNP-NOT WITH TEAM - PREGNANCY
DNP-ACL REHAB
	29-73	9-22	27-29	11	21	32	20	10	2	6	19		94
	39.7%	40.9%	93.1%

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

Regular Season Series

LA wins 3-1

Mercury
71
Sparks
94

Game 1

20/5

Sparks
99
Mercury
93

Game 2

3/6

Sparks
72
Mercury
78

Game 3

9/7

Mercury
62
Sparks
91

Game 4

24/8

crypto.com Arena

4:00 AM, 20 May 2023

Los Angeles, CA

Attendance: 10,396

Referees:
Amy Bonner
Tim Greene
Randy Richardson

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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Phoenix Mercury

Los Angeles Sparks

Regular Season Series

LA wins 3-1

Game Information

2023-24 Western Conference Standings

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