2002 Los Angeles Sparks Stats

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Record: 25-7, 1st in WNBA Western Conference

Coach: Michael Cooper (25-7)

Executive: Penny Toler

PTS/G: 76.6 (1st of 16) Opp PTS/G: 69.8 (11th of 16)

Pace: 73.5 (1st of 16)

Off Rtg: 103.1 (2nd of 16) Def Rtg: 94.0 (2nd of 16) Net Rtg: +9.1 (1st of 16)

Expected W-L: 23-9

Arena: STAPLES Center

Playoffs:
Won WNBA Western Conference Semifinals (2-0) over Seattle Storm
Won WNBA Western Conference Finals (2-0) over Utah Starzz
Won WNBA Finals (2-0) over New York Liberty

WNBA Champions
Western Conference Champions

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Recent Game Results

Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month

Roster

Roster Table
No.	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt	Birth Date	Exp	College
41	Marlies Askamp	C	6-5	198	July 8, 1970	5
0	Latasha Byears	G-F	5-11	206	August 12, 1973	5	DePaul
14	Erika de Souza	F-C	6-5	190	March 9, 1982	R
21	Tamecka Dixon	G	5-9	148	December 14, 1975	5	Kansas
12	Katryna Gaither	C	6-3	170	August 13, 1975	1	Notre Dame
17	Vedrana Grgin-Fonseca	F	6-1	160	January 13, 1975	2
7	Vicki Hall	F	6-1	180	October 3, 1969	2	Texas
9	Lisa Leslie	C	6-5	170	July 7, 1972	5	USC
4	Mwadi Mabika	G	5-11	165	July 27, 1976	5
10	Nicky McCrimmon	G	5-8	125	March 22, 1972	2	USC
8	DeLisha Milton-Jones	F	6-1	185	September 11, 1974	3	Florida
42	Nikki Teasley	G	6-0	169	March 22, 1979	R	UNC
13	Sophia Witherspoon	G	5-10	145	July 6, 1969	5	Florida

Assistant Coaches and Staff

Team and Opponent Stats

Ranks are per game and sorted descending (except for TOV and PF); opponents ranked are flipped; year/year calculations are also per game

Team and Opponent Stats Table
Type	G	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Team	32	6475	891	2002	.445	194	515	.377	697	1487	.469	476	645	.738	329	814	1143	583	257	161	517	664	2452
Team/G		202.3	27.8	62.6	.445	6.1	16.1	.377	21.8	46.5	.469	14.9	20.2	.738	10.3	25.4	35.7	18.2	8.0	5.0	16.2	20.8	76.6
Lg Rank		4	1	1	1	2	3	2	3	6	1	5	5	11	4	1	1	1	8	2	13	13	1
Year/Year		0.0%	-2.8%	-1.4%	-0.6	+22.0%	+18.4%	+1.0	-7.6%	-6.6%	-0.5	+6.4%	+8.6%	-1.8	-5.5%	+7.6%	+3.5%	-2.2%	-9.1%	+16.3%	+18.2%	+7.8%	+0.4%
Opponent	32	6475	796	2040	.390	163	521	.313	633	1519	.417	480	649	.740	314	645	959	508	275	111	453	623	2235
Opp/G		202.3	24.9	63.8	.390	5.1	16.3	.313	19.8	47.5	.417	15.0	20.3	.740	9.8	20.2	30.0	15.9	8.6	3.5	14.2	19.5	69.8
Lg Rank		4	9	15	2	16	16	3	5	13	2	12	13	7	11	5	5	13	15	8	6	11	11
Year/Year			+2.5%	+2.9%	-0.2	-15.0%	-13.3%	-0.5	+8.2%	+10.0%	-0.8	+15.4%	+18.7%	-2.1	+6.5%	+3.1%	+4.2%	-5.4%	+17.8%	-2.8%	0.0%	+5.4%	+3.1%

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Per Game

Regular Season

Playoffs

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Lisa Leslie	29	31	31	34.2	6.1	13.1	.466	0.4	1.2	.324	5.7	11.9	.480	4.3	5.9	.727	2.5	7.9	10.4	2.7	1.5	2.9	3.5	4.0	16.9
2	Mwadi Mabika	25	32	32	32.8	5.9	13.9	.423	2.0	5.5	.366	3.9	8.4	.461	3.1	3.7	.839	1.0	4.2	5.2	2.9	1.2	0.3	1.9	2.8	16.8
3	Tamecka Dixon	26	30	30	31.9	4.2	10.7	.391	0.7	1.9	.351	3.5	8.8	.399	1.6	2.0	.831	0.6	2.5	3.1	4.0	0.9	0.2	2.7	2.5	10.6
4	DeLisha Milton-Jones	27	32	25	30.2	4.1	8.5	.487	0.7	1.6	.420	3.5	6.9	.502	2.4	3.3	.740	2.0	4.6	6.6	1.4	1.6	1.1	2.9	3.8	11.3
5	Nikki Teasley	23	32	32	27.6	2.1	5.2	.404	1.3	3.1	.400	0.8	2.1	.409	0.9	1.3	.750	0.5	2.1	2.6	4.4	0.8	0.3	2.1	2.0	6.4
6	Latasha Byears	28	26	5	18.7	2.9	4.7	.618	0.0	0.0		2.9	4.7	.618	1.2	2.0	.566	2.5	2.9	5.4	0.5	0.7	0.2	0.8	3.4	7.0
7	Sophia Witherspoon	32	31	1	11.5	1.6	3.8	.415	0.9	2.2	.418	0.7	1.6	.412	1.1	1.5	.761	0.3	0.6	0.9	0.9	0.4	0.1	0.7	0.9	5.2
8	Nicky McCrimmon	30	32	0	11.1	0.6	1.5	.408	0.1	0.5	.267	0.5	1.1	.471	0.2	0.3	.636	0.3	0.4	0.7	1.7	0.7	0.1	0.8	0.7	1.6
9	Marlies Askamp	31	20	4	10.8	1.3	2.8	.473	0.0	0.1	.000	1.3	2.7	.481	0.5	0.7	.643	1.2	1.3	2.5	0.2	0.6	0.2	0.6	1.3	3.1
10	Vedrana Grgin-Fonseca	27	12	0	6.6	1.0	2.6	.387	0.4	1.0	.417	0.6	1.6	.368	0.2	0.3	.667	0.3	0.4	0.7	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.7	0.9	2.6
11	Vicki Hall	32	3	0	6.3	0.7	1.3	.500	0.0	0.3	.000	0.7	1.0	.667	1.0	1.3	.750	0.3	0.3	0.7	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.3	0.7	2.3
12	Katryna Gaither	26	1	0	5.0	0.0	1.0	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	1.0	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	2.0	0.0
13	Erika de Souza	20	11	0	3.7	0.5	1.3	.357	0.0	0.0		0.5	1.3	.357	0.2	0.9	.200	0.7	0.5	1.3	0.2	0.3	0.0	0.5	1.3	1.1

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Lisa Leslie	29	6	6	38.7	7.7	14.3	.535	0.8	1.3	.625	6.8	13.0	.526	3.2	4.3	.731	1.7	6.2	7.8	1.8	1.8	2.8	1.3	3.7	19.3
2	Mwadi Mabika	25	6	6	35.3	5.2	13.7	.378	1.3	4.2	.320	3.8	9.5	.404	3.0	4.3	.692	1.8	5.0	6.8	4.2	1.3	0.2	1.7	3.2	14.7
3	DeLisha Milton-Jones	27	6	3	34.0	4.5	10.0	.450	1.5	2.7	.563	3.0	7.3	.409	2.5	2.7	.938	1.5	5.3	6.8	1.3	1.7	1.5	1.8	3.7	13.0
4	Nikki Teasley	23	6	6	30.7	2.3	7.0	.333	0.8	3.7	.227	1.5	3.3	.450	2.7	3.2	.842	0.5	1.7	2.2	7.8	1.5	0.2	3.7	3.7	8.2
5	Tamecka Dixon	26	5	4	29.4	5.0	8.8	.568	0.4	0.8	.500	4.6	8.0	.575	1.8	2.0	.900	0.4	3.6	4.0	3.4	2.4	0.0	2.6	3.0	12.2
6	Latasha Byears	28	6	2	21.3	3.2	5.0	.633	0.0	0.0		3.2	5.0	.633	0.7	1.8	.364	2.5	2.3	4.8	0.8	1.5	0.2	1.7	3.2	7.0
7	Sophia Witherspoon	32	6	0	6.5	0.8	2.3	.357	0.7	1.8	.364	0.2	0.5	.333	0.7	0.7	1.000	0.2	0.7	0.8	0.3	0.2	0.0	0.2	0.5	3.0
8	Marlies Askamp	31	4	3	6.0	0.0	1.3	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	1.3	.000	0.5	0.5	1.000	0.3	0.5	0.8	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.5
9	Vedrana Grgin-Fonseca	27	1	0	5.0	0.0	1.0	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	1.0	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
10	Nicky McCrimmon	30	5	0	4.4	0.6	1.4	.429	0.2	0.4	.500	0.4	1.0	.400	0.2	0.2	1.000	0.0	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.4	0.0	0.2	0.4	1.6
11	Erika de Souza	20	1	0	3.0	0.0	1.0	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	1.0	.000	3.0	4.0	.750	1.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.0

Totals

Regular Season

Playoffs

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Lisa Leslie	29	31	31	1060	189	406	.466	12	37	.324	177	369	.480	133	183	.727	78	244	322	83	46	90	108	123	523
2	Mwadi Mabika	25	32	32	1050	188	444	.423	64	175	.366	124	269	.461	99	118	.839	32	135	167	92	38	9	62	90	539
3	DeLisha Milton-Jones	27	32	25	966	132	271	.487	21	50	.420	111	221	.502	77	104	.740	65	146	211	45	50	35	94	122	362
4	Tamecka Dixon	26	30	30	958	125	320	.391	20	57	.351	105	263	.399	49	59	.831	18	74	92	119	28	5	82	74	319
5	Nikki Teasley	23	32	32	882	67	166	.404	40	100	.400	27	66	.409	30	40	.750	17	67	84	140	25	9	68	63	204
6	Latasha Byears	28	26	5	486	76	123	.618	0	0		76	123	.618	30	53	.566	65	76	141	13	19	4	20	89	182
7	Sophia Witherspoon	32	31	1	358	49	118	.415	28	67	.418	21	51	.412	35	46	.761	9	20	29	29	13	2	22	27	161
8	Nicky McCrimmon	30	32	0	356	20	49	.408	4	15	.267	16	34	.471	7	11	.636	9	14	23	53	22	3	24	22	51
9	Marlies Askamp	31	20	4	215	26	55	.473	0	1	.000	26	54	.481	9	14	.643	24	25	49	4	11	4	11	25	61
10	Vedrana Grgin-Fonseca	27	12	0	79	12	31	.387	5	12	.417	7	19	.368	2	3	.667	3	5	8	1	1	0	8	11	31
11	Erika de Souza	20	11	0	41	5	14	.357	0	0		5	14	.357	2	10	.200	8	6	14	2	3	0	6	14	12
12	Vicki Hall	32	3	0	19	2	4	.500	0	1	.000	2	3	.667	3	4	.750	1	1	2	1	1	0	1	2	7
13	Katryna Gaither	26	1	0	5	0	1	.000	0	0		0	1	.000	0	0		0	1	1	1	0	0	1	2	0
			32		6475	891	2002	.445	194	515	.377	697	1487	.469	476	645	.738	329	814	1143	583	257	161	517	664	2452

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Lisa Leslie	29	6	6	232	46	86	.535	5	8	.625	41	78	.526	19	26	.731	10	37	47	11	11	17	8	22	116
2	Mwadi Mabika	25	6	6	212	31	82	.378	8	25	.320	23	57	.404	18	26	.692	11	30	41	25	8	1	10	19	88
3	DeLisha Milton-Jones	27	6	3	204	27	60	.450	9	16	.563	18	44	.409	15	16	.938	9	32	41	8	10	9	11	22	78
4	Nikki Teasley	23	6	6	184	14	42	.333	5	22	.227	9	20	.450	16	19	.842	3	10	13	47	9	1	22	22	49
5	Tamecka Dixon	26	5	4	147	25	44	.568	2	4	.500	23	40	.575	9	10	.900	2	18	20	17	12	0	13	15	61
6	Latasha Byears	28	6	2	128	19	30	.633	0	0		19	30	.633	4	11	.364	15	14	29	5	9	1	10	19	42
7	Sophia Witherspoon	32	6	0	39	5	14	.357	4	11	.364	1	3	.333	4	4	1.000	1	4	5	2	1	0	1	3	18
8	Marlies Askamp	31	4	3	24	0	5	.000	0	0		0	5	.000	2	2	1.000	1	2	3	0	0	0	0	4	2
9	Nicky McCrimmon	30	5	0	22	3	7	.429	1	2	.500	2	5	.400	1	1	1.000	0	1	1	2	2	0	1	2	8
10	Vedrana Grgin-Fonseca	27	1	0	5	0	1	.000	0	0		0	1	.000	0	0		0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
11	Erika de Souza	20	1	0	3	0	1	.000	0	0		0	1	.000	3	4	.750	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3

Advanced

Regular Season

Playoffs

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	eFG%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%	ORtg	DRtg	OWS	DWS	WS	WS/40
1	Lisa Leslie	29	31	1060	24.0	.537	.480	.091	.451	9.8	26.4	18.7	15.4	2.4	7.2	18.2	25.9	102	86	2.7	3.3	5.9	.224
2	Mwadi Mabika	25	32	1050	21.0	.543	.495	.394	.266	4.1	14.8	9.8	17.2	2.0	0.7	11.1	24.6	112	96	4.3	1.7	5.9	.226
3	DeLisha Milton-Jones	27	32	966	16.5	.571	.526	.185	.384	8.9	17.4	13.5	8.4	2.8	3.1	22.9	19.6	99	91	1.4	2.2	3.6	.148
4	Tamecka Dixon	26	30	958	11.4	.461	.422	.178	.184	2.5	8.9	5.9	22.3	1.6	0.4	19.2	20.6	93	99	0.5	1.0	1.5	.063
5	Nikki Teasley	23	32	882	12.2	.556	.524	.602	.241	2.6	8.7	5.9	25.9	1.5	0.9	27.0	13.2	104	99	1.5	1.0	2.4	.110
6	Latasha Byears	28	26	486	19.7	.622	.618	.000	.431	17.8	18.0	17.9	5.0	2.1	0.7	12.0	15.8	123	94	2.0	0.9	3.0	.244
7	Sophia Witherspoon	32	31	358	17.9	.582	.534	.568	.390	3.3	6.4	5.0	14.7	2.0	0.5	13.7	20.7	114	99	1.4	0.4	1.7	.194
8	Nicky McCrimmon	30	32	356	10.4	.474	.449	.306	.224	3.4	4.5	4.0	23.6	3.4	0.7	30.8	10.1	96	97	0.2	0.5	0.7	.080
9	Marlies Askamp	31	20	215	14.1	.499	.473	.018	.255	14.8	13.3	14.0	3.3	2.8	1.6	15.2	15.5	102	94	0.3	0.4	0.7	.134
10	Vedrana Grgin-Fonseca	27	12	79	5.9	.480	.468	.387	.097	5.0	7.3	6.2	2.4	0.7	0.0	19.8	23.6	83	101	-0.1	0.1	0.0	-0.024
11	Erika de Souza	20	11	41	3.5	.326	.357	.000	.714	25.9	16.8	21.0	8.6	4.0	0.0	24.6	27.5	68	90	-0.2	0.1	-0.1	-0.101
12	Vicki Hall	32	3	19	16.8	.608	.500	.250	1.000	7.0	6.0	6.5	9.0	2.9	0.0	14.8	16.4	119	97	0.1	0.0	0.1	.207
13	Katryna Gaither	26	1	5	-15.2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0	23.0	12.3	29.1	0.0	0.0	50.0	18.5	27	96	-0.1	0.0	0.0	-0.343

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	eFG%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%	ORtg	DRtg	OWS	DWS	WS	WS/40
1	Lisa Leslie	29	6	232	24.0	.595	.564	.093	.302	6.0	19.2	13.1	9.3	2.6	6.8	7.6	21.8	121	87	0.9	0.9	1.7	.298
2	Mwadi Mabika	25	6	212	16.3	.471	.427	.305	.317	7.3	17.1	12.5	21.0	2.1	0.4	9.7	23.4	106	93	0.4	0.6	1.0	.185
3	DeLisha Milton-Jones	27	6	204	17.2	.582	.525	.267	.267	6.2	18.9	13.0	6.8	2.7	4.1	14.1	18.3	111	89	0.4	0.7	1.1	.219
4	Nikki Teasley	23	6	184	11.8	.486	.393	.524	.452	2.3	6.6	4.6	40.4	2.7	0.5	30.4	18.9	97	95	0.0	0.5	0.5	.108
5	Tamecka Dixon	26	5	147	18.8	.630	.591	.091	.227	1.9	14.8	8.8	21.5	4.5	0.0	21.2	20.0	108	89	0.3	0.5	0.8	.215
6	Latasha Byears	28	6	128	15.7	.603	.633	.000	.367	16.4	13.2	14.7	7.0	3.9	0.7	22.3	16.8	104	90	0.1	0.4	0.6	.175
7	Sophia Witherspoon	32	6	39	16.8	.571	.500	.786	.286	3.6	12.4	8.3	8.8	1.4	0.0	6.0	20.6	122	96	0.1	0.1	0.2	.240
8	Marlies Askamp	31	4	24	-3.9	.170	.000	.000	.400	5.8	10.1	8.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	11.8	56	100	-0.1	0.0	0.0	-0.046
9	Nicky McCrimmon	30	5	22	15.2	.538	.500	.286	.143	0.0	5.5	2.9	15.9	5.0	0.0	11.8	18.4	108	91	0.0	0.1	0.1	.187
10	Vedrana Grgin-Fonseca	27	1	5	7.2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	56.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	9.6	91	104	0.0	0.0	0.0	.030
11	Erika de Souza	20	1	3	43.2	.543	.000	.000	4.000	46.8	0.0	21.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	44.1	139	104	0.0	0.0	0.0	.632

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