2002 Los Angeles Sparks Statistics

Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)
Team Record: 25-7
Finishing 1st in the WNBA's Western Conference
Postseason: 6-0 Won Championship

First Round - Defeated Seattle Storm 2-0
Conference Finals - Defeated Utah Starzz 2-0
Finals - Defeated New York Liberty 2-0
Coach: Michael Cooper (25-7)
Location: Los Angeles, California
Attendance: 186,410, Avg. 11,651 in 16 home dates

2002 Los Angeles Sparks Roster

The Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association ended the 2002 season with a record of 25 wins and 7 losses, finishing first in the WNBA's Western Conference. The team compiled a postseason mark of 6-0.

Los Angeles paced the league with 2,452 points. The team yielded 2,235 points. Mwadi Mabika scored a team-leading 539 points for the Sparks, and Lisa Leslie contributed 12 or more per game, too. Lisa Leslie accounted for 322 rebounds. Nikki Teasley dished out 140 assists for the squad.

Defensively, DeLisha Milton-Jones added 50 steals, while Lisa Leslie blocked 90 shots.

Michael Cooper coached the team. The 2002 Los Angeles Sparks won the Championship of the playoffs.

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Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Min	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Mwadi Mabika	G-F	32	32	1050	444	188	175	64	118	99	32	135	167	92	38	9	62	90	539
Lisa Leslie	C	31	31	1060	406	189	37	12	183	133	78	244	322	83	46	90	108	123	523
DeLisha Milton-Jones	F	32	25	966	271	132	50	21	104	77	65	146	211	45	50	35	94	122	362
Tamecka Dixon	G	30	30	958	320	125	57	20	59	49	18	74	92	119	28	5	82	74	319
Nikki Teasley	G	32	32	882	166	67	100	40	40	30	17	67	84	140	25	9	68	63	204
Latasha Byears	G-F	26	5	486	123	76	0	0	53	30	65	76	141	13	19	4	20	89	182
Sophia Witherspoon	G	31	1	358	118	49	67	28	46	35	9	20	29	29	13	2	22	27	161
Marlies Askamp	C	20	4	215	55	26	1	0	14	9	24	25	49	4	11	4	11	25	61
Nicky McCrimmon	G	32	0	356	49	20	15	4	11	7	9	14	23	53	22	3	24	22	51
Vedrana Grgin-Fonseca	F	12	0	79	31	12	12	5	3	2	3	5	8	1	1	0	8	11	31
Erika de Souza	F-C	11	0	41	14	5	0	0	10	2	8	6	14	2	3	0	6	14	12
Vicki Hall	F	3	0	19	4	2	1	0	4	3	1	1	2	1	1	0	1	2	7
Katryna Gaither	C	1	0	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	2	0
Totals		293	160	6475	2002	891	515	194	645	476	329	814	1143	583	257	161	507	664	2452

Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Mwadi Mabika	G-F	32	32	32.8	42.3	36.6	83.9	1.0	4.2	5.2	2.9	1.2	0.3	1.9	2.8	16.8
Lisa Leslie	C	31	31	34.2	46.6	32.4	72.7	2.5	7.9	10.4	2.7	1.5	2.9	3.5	4.0	16.9
DeLisha Milton-Jones	F	32	25	30.2	48.7	42.0	74.0	2.0	4.6	6.6	1.4	1.6	1.1	2.9	3.8	11.3
Tamecka Dixon	G	30	30	31.9	39.1	35.1	83.1	0.6	2.5	3.1	4.0	0.9	0.2	2.7	2.5	10.6
Nikki Teasley	G	32	32	27.6	40.4	40.0	75.0	0.5	2.1	2.6	4.4	0.8	0.3	2.1	2.0	6.4
Latasha Byears	G-F	26	5	18.7	61.8		56.6	2.5	2.9	5.4	0.5	0.7	0.2	0.8	3.4	7.0
Sophia Witherspoon	G	31	1	11.5	41.5	41.8	76.1	0.3	0.6	0.9	0.9	0.4	0.1	0.7	0.9	5.2
Marlies Askamp	C	20	4	10.8	47.3	0.0	64.3	1.2	1.3	2.5	0.2	0.6	0.2	0.6	1.3	3.1
Nicky McCrimmon	G	32	0	11.1	40.8	26.7	63.6	0.3	0.4	0.7	1.7	0.7	0.1	0.8	0.7	1.6
Vedrana Grgin-Fonseca	F	12	0	6.6	38.7	41.7	66.7	0.3	0.4	0.7	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.7	0.9	2.6
Erika de Souza	F-C	11	0	3.7	35.7		20.0	0.7	0.5	1.3	0.2	0.3	0.0	0.5	1.3	1.1
Vicki Hall	F	3	0	6.3	50.0	0.0	75.0	0.3	0.3	0.7	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.3	0.7	2.3
Katryna Gaither	C	1	0	5.0	0.0			0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	2.0	0.0
Averages		293	160	22.1	44.5	37.7	73.8	1.1	2.8	3.9	2.0	0.9	0.5	1.7	2.3	8.4

Postseason - Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Min	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Lisa Leslie	C	6	6	232	86	46	8	5	26	19	10	37	47	11	11	17	8	22	116
Mwadi Mabika	G-F	6	6	212	82	31	25	8	26	18	11	30	41	25	8	1	10	19	88
DeLisha Milton-Jones	F	6	3	204	60	27	16	9	16	15	9	32	41	8	10	9	11	22	78
Tamecka Dixon	G	5	4	147	44	25	4	2	10	9	2	18	20	17	12	0	13	15	61
Nikki Teasley	G	6	6	184	42	14	22	5	19	16	3	10	13	47	9	1	22	22	49
Latasha Byears	G-F	6	2	128	30	19	0	0	11	4	15	14	29	5	9	1	10	19	42
Sophia Witherspoon	G	6	0	39	14	5	11	4	4	4	1	4	5	2	1	0	1	3	18
Nicky McCrimmon	G	5	0	22	7	3	2	1	1	1	0	1	1	2	2	0	1	2	8
Erika de Souza	F-C	1	0	3	1	0	0	0	4	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
Marlies Askamp	C	4	3	24	5	0	0	0	2	2	1	2	3	0	0	0	0	4	2
Vedrana Grgin-Fonseca	F	1	0	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Totals		52	30	1200	372	170	88	34	119	91	53	148	201	119	62	29	76	128	465

Postseason Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Lisa Leslie	C	6	6	38.7	53.5	62.5	73.1	1.7	6.2	7.8	1.8	1.8	2.8	1.3	3.7	19.3
Mwadi Mabika	G-F	6	6	35.3	37.8	32.0	69.2	1.8	5.0	6.8	4.2	1.3	0.2	1.7	3.2	14.7
DeLisha Milton-Jones	F	6	3	34.0	45.0	56.3	93.8	1.5	5.3	6.8	1.3	1.7	1.5	1.8	3.7	13.0
Tamecka Dixon	G	5	4	29.4	56.8	50.0	90.0	0.4	3.6	4.0	3.4	2.4	0.0	2.6	3.0	12.2
Nikki Teasley	G	6	6	30.7	33.3	22.7	84.2	0.5	1.7	2.2	7.8	1.5	0.2	3.7	3.7	8.2
Latasha Byears	G-F	6	2	21.3	63.3		36.4	2.5	2.3	4.8	0.8	1.5	0.2	1.7	3.2	7.0
Sophia Witherspoon	G	6	0	6.5	35.7	36.4	100.0	0.2	0.7	0.8	0.3	0.2	0.0	0.2	0.5	3.0
Nicky McCrimmon	G	5	0	4.4	42.9	50.0	100.0	0.0	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.4	0.0	0.2	0.4	1.6
Erika de Souza	F-C	1	0	3.0	0.0		75.0	1.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.0
Marlies Askamp	C	4	3	6.0	0.0		100.0	0.3	0.5	0.8	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.5
Vedrana Grgin-Fonseca	F	1	0	5.0	0.0			0.0	0.0	0.0	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Averages		293	30	23.1	45.7	38.6	76.5	1.0	2.8	3.9	2.3	1.2	0.6	1.5	2.5	8.9

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