2024 Los Angeles Sparks season

2024 Los Angeles Sparks season
2024 Los Angeles Sparks season
Coach	Curt Miller
Arena	Walter Pyramid (Capacity: 4,000 (first two games of the season); Crypto.com Arena; (Capacity: 19,068)
Attendance	11,045 per game
Results
Record	8–32 (.200)
Place	6th (Western)
Playoff finish	Did not qualify
Team Leaders
Points	Dearica Hamby – 17.3 ppg
Rebounds	Dearica Hamby – 9.2 rpg
Assists	Odyssey Sims – 5.1 apg
Media
Television	ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, CBS, Paramount+, CBSSN, NBA TV, ION
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The 2024 WNBA season was the franchise's 28th season in the Women's National Basketball Association, and the second season under head coach Curt Miller. The season tipped off on May 15, 2024, in Long Beach versus the Atlanta Dream,^[1] and ended on September 19 against the Minnesota Lynx.

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The season started slowly for the Sparks as they lost both of their opening two games. They defeated Washington by two points on May 21 to earn their first win of the season. They lost the following two games including a one point loss to Dallas. They defeated Indiana before losing to Chicago to end the month with a 2–5 record. Their June started off with two losses as well. They won two games to follow including a victory at home against Last Vegas. That would be the highlight of the month as the team went on a seven game losing streak from there to finish the month with a 2–9 record. The only non-double digit loss during that streak was a 70–79 loss to Connecticut on June 18. Their losing streak extended one more game into July before they defeated Last Vegas in overtime. They would lose the next two games before defeating Dallas. They lost to Seattle to finish July 2–4 and head into the Olympic break. The Sparks lost the first six games after returning from the Olympic break before defeating New York to finish August 1–6. Well out of the playoff race, the Sparks lost the first eight games of September. The closest loss of the streak was by three-points at Seattle on September 15. The team finished the season with a win over Minnesota. The season was marred by a multitude of injuries, including a season-ending ACL tear to the team's No. 2 draft pick, Cameron Brink, who wound up missing the remainder of the season after playing just 15 games.^[2] Brink's injury also caused her to miss the 2024 Summer Olympics, with her teammate Dearica Hamby taking her place on the United States women's national 3x3 team. The Sparks finished with just 8 wins and 32 losses, missing the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season and failing to improve on their 17-23 record from 2023. Their eight wins were the team's lowest total in franchise history and their 32 losses was the highest in a single season in league's history.

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Round	Pick	Player	Nationality	School/team/country
1	2	Cameron Brink	United States	Stanford
1	4	Rickea Jackson	United States	Tennessee
3	28	McKenzie Forbes	United States	USC

Date	Transaction
January 5, 2024	Hired Raegan Pebley as General Manager^[3]
January 17, 2024	Jasmine Thomas retired^[4]
January 31, 2024	Traded the 19th pick in the 2024 WNBA draft to Seattle in exchange for Kia Nurse^[5]
February 1, 2024	Re-signed Layshia Clarendon^[6]
	Traded the 12th overall pick in the 2024 draft and Jordin Canada to the Atlanta Dream in exchange for Aari McDonald and the 8th overall pick in the 2024 draft^[7]
	Re-signed Rae Burrell^[6]
February 2, 2024	Signed Monique Billings^[8]
	Signed Virag Kiss to a Training Camp Contract^[9]
	Signed Taylor Mikesell to a Training Camp Contract^[10]
February 6, 2024	Signed Lexie Brown to an Extension^[11]
February 21, 2024	Traded the 8th overall pick in the 2024 draft to Chicago in exchange for Julie Allemand, the rights to Li Yueru and a third round pick in the 2025 draft.^[12]
March 21, 2024	Hired Christine Monjer as President^[13]
April 17, 2024	Signed Blake Dietrick to a Training Camp Contract^[14]
April 18, 2024	Signed McKenzie Forbes to a Rookie Contract^[15]
April 19, 2024	Signed Rickea Jackson to a Rookie Contract^[15]
April 20, 2024	Signed Cameron Brink to a Rookie Contract^[15]
April 30, 2024	Waived Virág Kiss^[16]
May 6, 2024	Waived Taylor Mikesell^[17]
May 12, 2024	Waived Nia Clouden, Blake Dietrick, and McKenzie Forbes
May 13, 2024	Suspended the contract of Julie Allemand (full season)^[18]
May 13, 2024	Waived Monique Billings^[19]
June 22, 2024	Signed Queen Egbo to hardship contract^[20]
June 29, 2024	Waived Queen Egbo
July 4, 2024	Signed Crystal Dangerfield to a 7-day hardship contract^[21]
July 12, 2024	Signed Crystal Dangerfield to a second 7-day contract^[15]
July 12, 2024	Suspended the contract of Li Yueru (temporary)
August 7, 2024	Activated Li Yueru^[15]
August 16, 2024	Signed Crystal Dangerfield to a third 7-day contract^[15]
August 17, 2024	Signed Odyssey Sims to 7-day contract
August 22, 2024	Signed Azurá Stevens and Stephanie Talbot to extensions through 2025^[22]^[23]
August 22, 2024	Signed Crystal Dangerfield to a rest of season contract^[24]
August 24, 2024	Signed Odyssey Sims to a second 7-day contract^[25]
August 31, 2024	Released Odyssey Sims and signed Simms to a 7-day contract
September 7, 2024	Released Odyssey Sims and signed Simms to a rest-of-season contract
September 20, 2024	Layshia Clarendon announced their retirement\|^[26]
September 24, 2024	Head coach, Curt Miller, was fired

Pos.	Starter	Bench
PG	Lexie Brown	Zia Cooke
SG	Layshia Clarendon	Aari McDonald
SF	Kia Nurse	Rae Burrell Rickea Jackson
PF	Dearica Hamby	Stephanie Talbot
C	Cameron Brink	Azurá Stevens Li Yueru

#	Team	W	L	PCT	GB	Conf.	Home	Road	Cup
1	yx – New York Liberty	32	8	.800	—	16–4	16–4	16–4	5–0
2	cx – Minnesota Lynx	30	10	.750	2	14–6	16–4	14–6	4–1
3	x – Connecticut Sun	28	12	.700	4	14–6	14–6	14–6	4–1
4	x – Las Vegas Aces	27	13	.675	5	12–8	13–7	14–6	2–3
5	x – Seattle Storm	25	15	.625	7	13–7	14–6	11–9	4–1
6	x – Indiana Fever	20	20	.500	12	11–9	12–8	8–12	3–2
7	x – Phoenix Mercury	19	21	.475	13	10–10	10–10	9–11	3–2
8	x – Atlanta Dream	15	25	.375	17	7–13	8–12	7–13	1–4
9	e – Washington Mystics	14	26	.350	18	7–13	5–15	9–11	1–4
10	e – Chicago Sky	13	27	.325	19	5–15	6–14	7–13	1–4
11	e – Dallas Wings	9	31	.225	23	6–14	7–13	2–18	0–5
12	e – Los Angeles Sparks	8	32	.200	24	5–15	5–15	3–17	2–3

Legend
GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game	RPG	Rebounds per game
APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game	BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game
FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage	TO	Turnovers per game
PF	Fouls per game		Team leader		League leader

2024 Los Angeles Sparks season

Transactions

WNBA draft

Transactions

Roster changes

Additions

Subtractions

Roster

Depth chart

Schedule

Pre-season

Regular season

Standings

Statistics

Regular season

Awards and honors

References

External links

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Player	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TO	PF	PPG
Dearica Hamby	40	40	33.7	.512	.341	.631	9.2	3.5	1.7	0.2	3.0	2.8	17.3
Rickea Jackson	40	35	28.8	.456	.347	.807	3.9	1.5	0.7	0.4	1.9	1.8	13.4
Odyssey Sims ^≠	15	10	26.3	.438	.154	.838	1.7	5.1	0.9	0.1	2.4	1.4	9.8
Azurá Stevens	20	19	24.7	.399	.350	.815	7.0	1.9	0.9	0.9	1.8	2.0	9.6
Aari McDonald	26	10	21.8	.403	.319	.843	2.0	3.7	0.9	0.2	1.8	2.0	8.7
Lexie Brown	16	8	23.7	.321	.304	.889	2.3	3.3	1.1	0.1	1.9	1.4	8.1
Kia Nurse	40	27	20.3	.388	.331	.793	1.6	1.3	0.5	0.0	1.2	1.8	7.6
Cameron Brink	15	15	22.0	.398	.323	.840	5.3	1.7	1.1	2.3	2.3	4.0	7.5
Rae Burrell	37	7	15.6	.362	.333	.780	1.8	1.1	0.8	0.3	1.0	1.6	5.9
Li Yueru	38	2	14.4	.463	.267	.898	3.7	0.6	0.3	0.2	0.9	2.1	5.1
Layshia Clarendon	21	12	16.0	.427	.350	.870	1.8	2.6	0.7	0.0	1.2	2.1	4.3
Zia Cooke	29	0	8.9	.321	.297	.690	0.6	0.6	0.3	0.1	0.7	0.8	3.6
Stephanie Talbot	37	10	16.2	.395	.260	.690	2.7	2.1	0.5	0.5	1.0	1.4	3.5
Crystal Dangerfield ^≠	18	5	12.8	.286	.308	.667	1.0	2.0	0.4	0.2	0.9	0.7	3.3
Queen Egbo ^≠ ^‡	2	0	2.0	1.000	—	—	1.5	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.5	1.0