# 2013 Los Angeles Sparks season

The 2013 WNBA season is the 17th season for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association.

## Transactions
### WNBA draft

The following are the Sparks' selections in the 2013 WNBA draft.
| Round | Pick | Player | Nationality | School/team/country |
| 1 | 10 | A'dia Mathies | United States United States | Florida Gulf Coast |
| 2 | 22 | Brittany Chambers | United States United States | Kansas State |
| 3 | 34 | Alina Iagupova | Ukraine | Elizabeth-Basket Kivorograd (Ukraine) |

### Trades

| Date | Trade | Trade |
| TBD | To Los Angeles Sparks | To TBD |
| TBD | TBD | TBD |

### Personnel changes
## Roster
### Depth

| Pos. | Starter | Bench |
| C | Candace Parker | Jantel Lavender |
| PF | Nneka Ogwumike | Ebony Hoffman Farhiya Abdi |
| SF | Alana Beard | Marissa Coleman |
| SG | Kristi Toliver | Jenna O'Hea |
| PG | Lindsey Harding | A'dia Mathies |

## Season standings

| # | Western Conference vte | Western Conference vte | Western Conference vte | Western Conference vte | Western Conference vte | Western Conference vte |
| # | Team | W | L | PCT | GB | GP |
| 1 | z-Minnesota Lynx | 26 | 8 | .765 | - | 34 |
| 2 | x-Los Angeles Sparks | 24 | 10 | .706 | 2 | 34 |
| 3 | x-Phoenix Mercury | 19 | 15 | .559 | 7 | 34 |
| 4 | x-Seattle Storm | 17 | 17 | .500 | 9 | 34 |
| 5 | e-San Antonio Silver Stars | 12 | 22 | .353 | 14 | 34 |
| 6 | e-Tulsa Shock | 11 | 23 | .324 | 15 | 34 |

## Schedule
### Preseason

2013 pre-season game log Total: 0–2 (Home: 0–2; Road: 0–0) :
Pre-season: 0–2 (Home: 0–2; Road: 0–0)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
1
May 12
Seattle
L 66–67
Ebony Hoffman (8)
Paola Ferrari (6)
Coleman, O'Hea, & Abdi (2)
Walter Pyramid at Long Beach State 1524
0–1
2
May 19
Tulsa
L 67–82
Kristi Toliver (11)
Candace Parker (7)
Lindsey Harding (4)
SRC Arena 1917
0–2 :
2013 season schedule :

### Regular season

2013 game log Total: 24–10 (Home: 15–2; Road: 9–8) :
May: 1–0 (Home: 1–0; Road: 0–0)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
1
May 26
Seattle
W 102–69
Kristi Toliver (17)
Jantel Lavender (6)
Lindsey Harding (8)
Staples Center 10090
1–0 :
June
: 4–4 (Home: 4–0; Road: 0–4)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
2
June 1
@ San Antonio
L 78–83
Candace Parker (27)
Candace Parker (20)
Lindsey Harding (5)
AT&T Center 6081
1–1
3
June 8
Tulsa
W 76–69 (OT)
Kristi Toliver (21)
Candace Parker (13)
Lindsey Harding (8)
Staples Center 6110
2–1
4
June 14
@ Phoenix
L 81–97
Kristi Toliver (18)
Nneka Ogwumike (10)
Candace Parker (3)
US Airways Center 13065
2–2
5
June 15
San Antonio
W 84–48
Nneka Ogwumike (16)
Nneka Ogwumike (7)
Parker & Toliver (6)
Staples Center 6980
3–2
6
June 21
Minnesota
W 87–59
Kristi Toliver (19)
Ogwumike, Parker, & Lavender (8)
Nneka Ogwumike (5)
Staples Center 6490
4–2
7
June 23
Washington
W 79–69
Lindsey Harding (22)
Nneka Ogwumike (9)
Lindsey Harding (7)
Staples Center 9651
5–2
8
June 28
@ Minnesota
L 64–88
Candace Parker (17)
Candace Parker (11)
Candace Parker (6)
Target Center 8814
5–3
9
June 29
@ Chicago
L 82–94
Candace Parker (23)
Candace Parker (9)
Candace Parker (4)
Allstate Arena 6885
5–4 :
July
: 7–2 (Home: 4–2; Road: 3–0)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
10
July 2
Minnesota
W 96–66
Candace Parker (27)
Nneka Ogwumike (10)
Kristi Toliver (9)
Staples Center 7856
6–4
11
July 4
NY Liberty
W 97–89
Kristi Toliver (29)
Candace Parker (8)
Lindsey Harding (8)
Staples Center 8565
7–4
12
July 6
San Antonio
W 93–66
Nneka Ogwumike (24)
Nneka Ogwumike (16)
Parker & Harding (3)
Staples Center 9807
8–4
13
July 11
@ Tulsa
W 94–78
Candace Parker (30)
Candace Parker (8)
Lindsey Harding (8)
BOK Center 6278
9–4
14
July 14
@ Phoenix
W 88–76
Candace Parker (21)
Nneka Ogwumike (13)
Kristi Toliver (6)
US Airways Center 8233
10–4
15
July 17
Atlanta
W 77–73
Kristi Toliver (15)
Candace Parker (10)
Lindsey Harding (6)
Staples Center 10876
11–4
16
July 18
Phoenix
L 84–90
Candace Parker (25)
Candace Parker (16)
Jenna O'Hea (5)
Staples Center 11105
11–5
17
July 20
@ Seattle
W 65–64
Nneka Ogwumike (24)
Nneka Ogwumike (9)
Lindsey Harding (8)
Key Arena 6357
12–5
18
July 25
Seattle
L 66–73
Candace Parker (24)
Candace Parker (10)
Kristi Toliver (3)
Staples Center 12651
12–6 :
August
: 9–2 (Home: 4–0; Road: 5–2)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
All-Star Break
19
August 2
@ Tulsa
L 89–96
Kristi Toliver (23)
Nneka Ogwumike (11)
Lindsey Harding (6)
BOK Center 6168
12–7
20
August 4
@ Washington
W 75–57
Nneka Ogwumike (22)
Jantel Lavender (11)
Lindsey Harding (14)
Verizon Center 7092
13–7
21
August 6
@ Connecticut
W 74–72
Kristi Toliver (19)
Ogwumike & Toliver (9)
Toliver & Harding (4)
Mohegan Sun Arena 5792
14–7
22
August 8
@ Indiana
W 74–64
Jantel Lavender (18)
Jantel Lavender (9)
Lindsey Harding (5)
Bankers Life Fieldhouse 7076
15–7
23
August 10
@ NY Liberty
W 85–67
Jantel Lavender (18)
Jantel Lavender (8)
Lindsey Harding (4)
Prudential Center 7569
16–7
24
August 13
Chicago
W 80–76
Candace Parker (18)
Ogwumike, Parker, & Lavender (7)
Parker, Toliver, & Coleman (4)
Staples Center 10553
17–7
25
August 16
Indiana
W 94–72
Kristi Toliver (28)
Nneka Ogwumike (7)
Lindsey Harding (7)
Staples Center 11801
18–7
26
August 20
@ Seattle
L 57–77
Nneka Ogwumike (12)
Candace Parker (10)
Parker & Harding (3)
Key Arena 6738
18–8
27
August 25
Tulsa
W 90–88 (2OT)
Candace Parker (26)
Candace Parker (11)
Candace Parker (9)
Staples Center 9973
19–8
28
August 27
Connecticut
W 91–78
Candace Parker (28)
Nneka Ogwumike (12)
Candace Parker (7)
Staples Center 11401
20–8
29
August 31
@ San Antonio
W 80–67
Nneka Ogwumike (19)
Candace Parker (11)
Kristi Toliver (7)
AT&T Center 8086
21–8 :
September
: 3–2 (Home: 2–0; Road: 1–2)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
30
September 2
@ Atlanta
L 82–92
Nneka Ogwumike (17)
Nneka Ogwumike (10)
Kristi Toliver (9)
Philips Arena 5504
21–9
31
September 4
@ Minnesota
L 74–83
Candace Parker (25)
Candace Parker (8)
Nneka Ogwumike (4)
Target Center 9314
21–10
32
September 6
@ Tulsa
W 74–70
Candace Parker (20)
Candace Parker (9)
Lindsey Harding (10)
BOK Center 6704
22–10
33
September 12
Minnesota
W 85–84
Nneka Ogwumike (25)
Nneka Ogwumike (11)
Parker & Toliver (4)
Staples Center 11553
23–10
34
September 15
Phoenix
W 89–55
Parker & Lavender (16)
Jantel Lavender (9)
Lindsey Harding (5)
Staples Center 12311
24–10 :
2013 season schedule :

### Playoffs

2013 playoff game log Total: 1–2 (Home: 0–2; Road: 1–0) :
Conference Semifinals: 1–2 (Home: 0–2; Road: 1–0)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceSeries
1
September 19
Phoenix
L 75–86
Candace Parker (28)
Nneka Ogwumike (14)
Lindsey Harding (5)
Staples Center 8500
0–1
2
September 21
@ Phoenix
W 82–73
Candace Parker (31)
Ogwumike & Parker (11)
Lindsey Harding (4)
US Airways Center 11110
1–1
3
September 23
Phoenix
L 77–78
Kristi Toliver (22)
Nneka Ogwumike (10)
Toliver & Coleman (3)
Staples Center 9321
1–2 :
2013 season schedule :

## Statistics
### Regular season

| Player | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |

## Footnotes

* ↑ Brittany Chambers was released by the Sparks before the start of the season.
* ↑ Los Angeles's selection of Alina Iagupova was subsequently voided by the league due to her age, under Article XIII, section 1(d) of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.