The Sparks tie it in the final minute, but Kayla McBride converts a reverse layup for a three-point play with 2.1 seconds left to give Minnesota an 87-84 win.
LOS ANGELES — Sparks coach and general manager Derek Fisher knows you needn’t only build an impressive roster in a crowded L.A. sports landscape.“We wanted to be in a position where we’re expected to be successful,” Fisher said before tipoff. “In L.A., when we’re in direct competition with 11 other professional sports teams, you have to be relevant, you have to have players that people want to come and see, otherwise people aren’t going to fight the traffic and come watch you play.
They saw Fisher’s revamped roster lose their home debut in a taught game against the Minnesota Lynx, their old rivals from championship tussles in the previous decade. The Sparks fell to 2-3, while Minnesota improved to 1-4. The play spoiled the Sparks’ own late-game heroics, including Lexie Brown burying her fourth 3-pointer to tie the score at 82-82 with 53 seconds left and Liz Cambage’s turnaround shot over Minnesota’s Syvlia Fowles, who committed her sixth and final foul defending the attempt.Former Mater Dei High standout Katie Lou Samuelson made her Sparks debut, scoring nine points on 3-for-5 3-point shooting in 23 minutes – less than a week after winning a Spanish League title.
The Sparks got the good start they’d been missing in their first four games, bolting ahead 12-4 on Chiney Ogwumike’s layup through contact with 5:33 left in the opening frame – a play that drew a full-body shiver of a celebration from big sister Nneka, who’d delivered the pass to her in the post.
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