Phoenix Mercury @ Los Angeles Sparks

WNBA SEMIFINALS - GAME 1 • LA leads series 1-0

18-16, 9-8 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Mercury PHX	23	19	6	18	66
Sparks LA	19	23	14	23	79

Los Angeles SparksSparksLA

26-8, 16-1 Home

Phoenix Mercury

starters
Camille LittleC. Little#20
Brittney GrinerB. Griner#42
Diana TaurasiD. Taurasi#3
Leilani MitchellL. Mitchell#5
Yvonne TurnerY. Turner#6
bench
Monique CurrieM. Currie#25
Angel RobinsonA. Robinson#0
Emma CannonE. Cannon#10
Alexis PrinceA. Prince#15
Stephanie TalbotS. Talbot#8
Cayla GeorgeC. George#23
Danielle RobinsonD. Robinson#11
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
31	2	1-3	0-1	0-0	11	2	2	0	0	1	10	6	-12
29	18	6-12	0-0	6-8	2	2	5	0	0	0	2	6	-3
33	6	2-10	0-4	2-5	2	3	1	0	0	0	2	2	-11
31	19	5-10	5-7	4-4	3	4	4	1	0	1	2	2	-9
23	5	1-4	1-3	2-2	2	2	0	2	0	0	2	1	-8
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
19	8	2-7	2-3	2-2	6	2	2	2	0	1	5	1	-7
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-2
17	4	2-3	0-0	0-0	5	1	1	0	0	3	2	6	-9
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
12	4	2-5	0-0	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	2	-4
	66	21-55	8-18	16-21	34	17	16	5	1	7	27	26
		38%	44%	76%

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
Sandrine GrudaS. Gruda#7
Tiffany Jackson-JonesT. Jackson-Jones#33
Maimouna DiarraM. Diarra#26
Riquna WilliamsR. Williams#2
Sydney WieseS. Wiese#24
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
29	15	4-10	2-4	5-5	6	3	4	1	0	0	6	5	+6
34	19	8-14	0-1	3-6	9	1	0	3	0	4	5	4	+12
34	11	5-6	0-1	1-2	3	0	1	2	0	0	3	3	+11
36	12	4-12	0-2	4-4	1	5	3	1	0	0	1	3	+11
35	13	5-14	2-5	1-1	3	6	2	2	0	0	3	2	+11
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
15	4	1-2	0-0	2-2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	+6
17	5	2-9	0-2	1-1	7	1	0	2	0	3	4	1	+8
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	79	29-67	4-15	17-21	30	16	10	11	0	8	22	20
		43%	27%	81%

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

Matchups

PHX

LA leads series

1-0

Game 1@ LA

Final

Game 2@ LA

Final

Game 3@ PHX

Final

Game Information

Los Angeles, CA

ESPN2

Referee:Tiffany Bird

Referee:Jeff Smith

Referee:Kurt Walker

Referee:Tiffany Bird

Women's National Basketball Assoc.

Western Conference	PCT	GB	STRK
Dallas	.000	-	-
Golden State	.000	-	-
Las Vegas	.000	-	-
Los Angeles	.000	-	-
Minnesota	.000	-	-
Phoenix	.000	-	-
Portland	.000	-	-
Seattle	.000	-	-

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