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2002 Los Angeles Sparks season

The 2002 WNBA season was the sixth season for the Los Angeles Sparks. The Sparks ended the season winning the WNBA Finals for the second straight year.

Transactions

WNBA draft

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1	16	Rosalind Ross	Oklahoma
2	30	Gergana Slavcheva	FIU
2	32	Jackie Higgins	North Carolina
3	48	Rashana Barnes	Penn State
4	64	Tiffany Thompson	Old Dominion

Transactions

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April 19, 2002	Traded Ukari Figgs and Gergana Slavcheva to the Portland Fire in exchange for Nikki Teasley and Sophia Witherspoon
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April 30, 2002	Signed Erika de Souza, Rhonda Smith and Kim Williams
May 3, 2002	Waived Rashana Barnes
May 8, 2002	Waived Tiffany Thompson
May 13, 2002	Waived Jackie Higgins, Kelley Simon, Kim Williams and Nicole Levandusky
Signed Vicki Hall, Shala Crawford and Naomi Mulitauaopele
May 16, 2002	Waived Rhonda Smith and Wendi Willits
May 23, 2002	Waived Naomi Mulitauaopele
June 7, 2002	Signed Katryna Gaither
June 11, 2002	Signed Sophia Witherspoon
June 18, 2002	Traded a [2003](2003-wnba-draft) 1st Round Pick to the Miami Sol in exchange for Marlies Askamp
June 21, 2002	Waived Katryna Gaither

Roster

Schedule

Regular season

|- | 1 | May 25 | New York | W 72–64 | Leslie Mabika Witherspoon (14) | Lisa Leslie (14) | Tamecka Dixon (7) | Staples Center

1–0
2
May 27
@ Houston
W 68–55
Lisa Leslie (22)
Lisa Leslie (17)
Sophia Witherspoon (4)
Compaq Center
2–0
-
3
May 30
@ Miami
W 69–65
Mwadi Mabika (17)
DeLisha Milton-Jones (8)
Nikki Teasley (5)
American Airlines Arena
3–0
-
4
June 1
@ Charlotte
L 87–94 (OT)
Lisa Leslie (26)
Lisa Leslie (12)
Nikki Teasley (6)
Charlotte Coliseum
3–1
-
5
June 3
Portland
W 89–72
Lisa Leslie (25)
Lisa Leslie (18)
Nikki Teasley (7)
Staples Center
4–1
-
6
June 8
@ Minnesota
W 76–72
Mwadi Mabika (21)
Byears
Leslie
Mabika (7)
Lisa Leslie (5)
Target Center
5–1
-
7
June 11
Detroit
W 90–80
Leslie
Milton-Jones (18)
Lisa Leslie (9)
Nikki Teasley (8)
Staples Center
6–1
-
8
June 15
@ Sacramento
W 72–66 (OT)
Mwadi Mabika (19)
Lisa Leslie (11)
Tamecka Dixon (5)
ARCO Arena
7–1
-
9
June 18
@ Seattle
W 80–68
Mwadi Mabika (23)
Mabika
Milton-Jones (9)
Dixon
Mabika (4)
KeyArena
8–1
-
10
June 21
Minnesota
W 73–64
Lisa Leslie (23)
Lisa Leslie (9)
Nikki Teasley (5)
Staples Center
9–1
-
11
June 25
Phoenix
W 89–66
Mwadi Mabika (20)
Lisa Leslie (12)
Nikki Teasley (9)
Staples Center
10–1
-
12
June 27
Washington
W 73–66
Mwadi Mabika (20)
Lisa Leslie (14)
Nikki Teasley (7)
Staples Center
11–1
-
13
June 28
@ Phoenix
W 84–72
Lisa Leslie (18)
Leslie
Milton-Jones (14)
Nikki Teasley (6)
America West Arena
12–1
-
14
June 30
Houston
L 58–60
Mwadi Mabika (18)
Latasha Byears (11)
Tamecka Dixon (7)
Staples Center
12–2
-
15
July 5
Sacramento
W 87–65
Lisa Leslie (16)
Leslie
Milton-Jones (9)
Nikki Teasley (5)
Staples Center
13–2
-
16
July 7
Utah
W 102–75
Tamecka Dixon (20)
Lisa Leslie (8)
Tamecka Dixon (8)
Staples Center
14–2
-
17
July 11
@ Seattle
L 60–79
Lisa Leslie (21)
DeLisha Milton-Jones (10)
Mabika
Teasley (3)
KeyArena
14–3
-
18
July 12
@ Portland
W 82–76 (OT)
Mwadi Mabika (32)
DeLisha Milton-Jones (13)
Mwadi Mabika (6)
Rose Garden
15–3
-
19
July 17
@ Indiana
W 73–58
Mwadi Mabika (27)
Lisa Leslie (14)
Nikki Teasley (4)
Conseco Fieldhouse
16–3
-
20
July 18
@ New York
L 59–72
Lisa Leslie (16)
Lisa Leslie (11)
Tamecka Dixon (4)
Madison Square Garden
16–4
-
21
July 20
@ Cleveland
W 63–50
Mwadi Mabika (15)
DeLisha Milton-Jones (10)
Nikki Teasley (8)
Gund Arena
17–4
-
22
July 22
Orlando
W 92–84
Lisa Leslie (24)
Lisa Leslie (21)
Lisa Leslie (8)
Staples Center
18–4
-
23
July 24
Portland
W 73–69
Lisa Leslie (21)
DeLisha Milton-Jones (13)
Dixon
Mabika
McCrimmon
Milton-Jones (3)
Staples Center
19–4
-
24
July 28
Indiana
W 80–62
Mwadi Mabika (22)
Lisa Leslie (9)
Nikki Teasley (7)
Staples Center
20–4
-
25
July 30
Miami
L 73–82
Mwadi Mabika (17)
Lisa Leslie (8)
Nicky McCrimmon (6)
Staples Center
20–5
-
26
August 1
Seattle
L 76–81
Lisa Leslie (30)
Lisa Leslie (16)
Nikki Teasley (7)
Staples Center
20–6
-
27
August 3
@ Sacramento
W 81–71
Mwadi Mabika (20)
Lisa Leslie (9)
Mwadi Mabika (9)
ARCO Arena
21–6
-
28
August 4
Utah
W 90–86
Lisa Leslie (26)
Mwadi Mabika (7)
Mwadi Mabika (6)
Staples Center
22–6
-
29
August 8
Houston
L 64–67
Mwadi Mabika (27)
Leslie
Milton-Jones (12)
Tamecka Dixon (5)
Staples Center
22–7
-
30
August 9
@ Utah
W 85–77
Lisa Leslie (19)
Mwadi Mabika (9)
Nikki Teasley (6)
Delta Center
23–7
-
31
August 11
@ Minnesota
W 69–58
Mwadi Mabika (16)
Nikki Teasley (6)
Tamecka Dixon (7)
Target Center
24–7
-
32
August 13
@ Phoenix
W 63–56
Lisa Leslie (23)
Lisa Leslie (11)
Mabika
Milton-Jones (3)
America West Arena
25–7

Playoffs

1–0
2
August 17
Seattle
W 69–59
Lisa Leslie (23)
DeLisha Milton-Jones (10)
Mabika
Teasley (4)
Staples Center
2–0
-
1
August 22
@ Utah
W 75–67
DeLisha Milton-Jones (17)
Lisa Leslie (8)
DeLisha Milton-Jones (5)
Delta Center
1–0
-
2
August 24
Utah
W 103–77
Lisa Leslie (25)
Mwadi Mabika (9)
Nikki Teasley (9)
Staples Center
2–0
-
1
August 29
@ New York
W 71–63
Mwadi Mabika (20)
Latasha Byears (11)
Nikki Teasley (11)
Madison Square Garden
1–0
-
2
August 31
New York
W 69–66
Lisa Leslie (17)
Latasha Byears (11)
Nikki Teasley (11)
Staples Center
2–0

Season standings

Statistics

Regular season

Los Angeles Sparks}}" width="6%"	Player	Los Angeles Sparks}}" width="6%"	GP	Los Angeles Sparks}}" width="6%"	GS	Los Angeles Sparks}}" width="6%"	MPG	Los Angeles Sparks}}" width="6%"	FG%	Los Angeles Sparks}}" width="6%"	3P%
Lisa Leslie	31	31	34.2	.466	.324	.727	10.4	2.7	1.5	2.9	16.9
Mwadi Mabika	32	32	32.8	.423	.366	.839	5.2	2.9	1.2	0.3	16.8
Tamecka Dixon	30	30	31.9	.391	.351	.831	3.1	4.0	0.9	0.2	10.6
DeLisha Milton-Jones	32	25	30.2	.487	.420	.740	6.6	1.4	1.6	1.1	11.3
Nikki Teasley	32	32	27.6	.404	.400	.750	2.6	4.4	0.8	0.3	6.4
Latasha Byears	26	5	18.7	.618	N/A	.566	5.4	0.5	0.7	0.2	7.0
Sophia Witherspoon	31	1	11.5	.415	.418	.761	0.9	0.9	0.4	0.1	5.2
Nicky McCrimmon	32	0	11.1	.408	.267	.636	0.7	1.7	0.7	0.1	1.6
Marlies Askamp	20	4	10.8	.473	.000	.643	2.5	0.2	0.6	0.2	3.1
Vedrana Grgin-Fonseca	12	0	6.6	.387	.417	.667	0.7	0.1	0.1	0.0	2.6
Vicki Hall	3	0	6.3	.500	.000	.750	0.7	0.3	0.3	0.0	2.3
Katryna Gaither	1	0	5.0	.000	N/A	N/A	1.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Erika de Souza	11	0	3.7	.357	N/A	.200	1.3	0.2	0.3	0.0	1.1

‡Waived/Released during the season

†Traded during the season

≠Acquired during the season

Awards and honors

Lisa Leslie, Best WNBA Player ESPY Award

References

Sparks on Basketball Reference

References

"2002 Los Angeles Sparks Transactions".

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