Kelsey Plum scored 12 of his 21 points in the last five minutes while the Los Angeles Sparks gathered for an 85-75 victory against Caitlin Clark-Indiana fever without Indianapolis.
The Sparks (5-11) also obtained a summit of 23 points from Azura Stevens, one of its summit of the season, when they made a sequence of four consecutive defeats. The fever was led by Kelsey Mitchell with 20 points.
Indiana (7-8) fell to 2-4 in Clark-free games this season. The reigning year of the WNBA reached the competition with the competition with what the team called a left -off injury.
The fever plays in Dallas on Friday evening, and there was no immediate word on the status of Clark.
Indiana led by no less than 10 in the second period and entered the fourth quarter up 58-50. The fever increased by seven after two free throws by Aliyah Boston with 5:58 to play, but they were dominated 26-9 the rest of the path.
The largest sequence came with less than a minute and the sparks of 77-75. The Derierica Hamby of Los Angeles was the victim of a fault on a hindsight. She missed the franc launch that followed, but Stevens fought to ensure the rebound, marked and was also at fault. Stevens made his life for a five-point trip to the Sparks, making it a match of 82-75 with 49 seconds to do.
After a silent first half, Plum took over in the fourth quarter. She scored seven consecutive points for Los Angeles over a period of 1:11 to give the Sparks an advance of 69-66. Plum entered the fourth game of the WNBA by scoring.
The fever has certainly missed Clark and the rhythm it brings to the game. Los Angeles scored the first nine points of the competition crowned by a game of three points by Rickea Jackson.
The Indiana accused seven games in a row, including a 3-point pointer by Aari McDonald recently re-signed. The fever took an advance of 19-18 on a hoop of recoil by Natasha Howard with 44.8 seconds to play in the first.
Los Angeles had trouble in the second quarter, without scoring a point for the first six minutes and more. The advance of Indiana was later at 31-22 after a pair of free Mitchell throws. However, the sparks closed half-time on an 8-3 race to obtain without 34-30 entering the break.
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