2010 Los Angeles Sparks season
Encyclopedia
The 2010 WNBA season is the 14th season for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association
Women's National Basketball Association
The Women's National Basketball Association is a women's professional basketball league in the United States. It currently is composed of twelve teams. The league was founded on April 24, 1996 as the women's counterpart to the National Basketball Association...

.

Dispersal draft

Based on the Sparks' 2009 record, they would pick 8th in the Sacramento Monarchs
Sacramento Monarchs
The Sacramento Monarchs were a basketball team based in Sacramento, California. They played in the Women's National Basketball Association from 1997 until folding on November 20, 2009...

 dispersal draft
Dispersal draft
A dispersal draft is a process in professional sports for assigning players to a new team when their current team goes out of business, consolidates with another team, or for some other reason ceases to exist. Since most sports drafts are held in North America, this is where most dispersal drafts...

. The Sparks waived their pick.

WNBA Draft

The following are the Sparks' selections in the 2010 WNBA Draft
2010 WNBA Draft
The 2010 WNBA Draft is the league's annual process for determining which teams receive the rights to negotiate with players entering the league. The draft was held on April 8, 2010. The first round was shown on ESPN2 , while the second and third rounds were shown on NBA TV and ESPNU.A lottery was...

.

Transaction log

  • March 26, 2009: The Sparks signed-and-traded Temeka Johnson to the Phoenix Mercury for Phoenix's first-round pick in the 2010 draft.
  • May 5, 2009: The Sparks traded Rafaella Masciadri and a previously acquired first-round pick in the 2010 draft to the Minnesota Lynx in exchange for Noelle Quinn.
  • February 9: The Sparks signed free agent Ticha Penicheiro.
  • February 16: The Sparks signed LaToya Pringle.
  • April 29: The Sparks waived Angel Robinson.
  • May 7: The Sparks waived Vanessa Hayden.
  • May 11: The Sparks signed Lisa Willis and waived Karina Figueroa.
  • May 13: The Sparks traded a second-round pick in the 2011 Draft to the Chicago Sky in exchange for Kristi Toliver.
  • May 13: The Sparks waived LaToya Pringle, Lisa Willis and Rashidat Junaid.
  • May 14: The Sparks waived Shannon Bobbitt and Bianca Thomas.
  • June 1: The Sparks waived Tiffany Stansbury and signed Chanel Mokango.

Trades


Additions

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|- style="height:40px"
| Ticha Penicheiro
Ticha Penicheiro
Ticha Penicheiro is a Portuguese professional basketball player who plays for Los Angeles Sparks in the WNBA...

|| February 9, 2010 || Sacramento Monarchs
Sacramento Monarchs
The Sacramento Monarchs were a basketball team based in Sacramento, California. They played in the Women's National Basketball Association from 1997 until folding on November 20, 2009...


|- style="height:40px"
| Kristi Toliver
Kristi Toliver
Kristi Toliver is a former basketball player for the University of Maryland at College Park. She is from Harrisonburg, Virginia, and has an older sister, Carli. She is the daughter of former NBA referee, George Toliver, and Peggy Toliver.-High school:Attended Harrisonburg High School and...

|| May 13, 2010 || Chicago Sky
Chicago Sky
The Chicago Sky is a professional basketball team based in Rosemont, Illinois, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2006 WNBA season began. The team is owned by Michael J. Alter and Margaret Stender...


|- style="height:40px"
| Tiffany Stansbury
Tiffany Stansbury
Tiffany Stansbury is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA.The daughter of former NBA player Terence Stansbury, Tiffany Stansbury attended college at NC State and graduated in 2006...

|| May 15, 2010 || free agent
Free agent
In professional sports, a free agent is a player whose contract with a team has expired and who is thus eligible to sign with another club or franchise....


|- style="height:40px"
| Chanel Mokango
Chanel Mokango
Chanel Mokango is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA.-References:...

|| June 1, 2010 || free agent
Free agent
In professional sports, a free agent is a player whose contract with a team has expired and who is thus eligible to sign with another club or franchise....


|}

Subtractions

{|class="navbox wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|- align="center" bgcolor="#dddddd"
| style="background:#5c2f83;color:#FFC322; width:140px"|Player
| style="background:#5c2f83;color:#FFC322; width:100px"|Left
| style="background:#5c2f83;color:#FFC322; width:210px"|New team
|- style="height:40px"
| Lisa Leslie
Lisa Leslie
Lisa Deshaun Leslie-Lockwood is a former American professional women's basketball player in the WNBA. She is a three-time WNBA MVP and a four-time Olympic gold medal winner...

|| 2009 || retired
|- style="height:40px"
| Vanessa Hayden || May 7, 2009 || free agent
|- style="height:40px"
| Shannon Bobbitt
Shannon Bobbitt
Shannon Denise Bobbitt is an American professional basketball player for the WNBA's Indiana Fever. One of eight children and a native of the Bronx, New York Bobbitt honed her basketball skills on the neighborhood project courts of Harlem...

|| May 14, 2009 || free agent
|- style="height:40px"
| Tiffany Stansbury
Tiffany Stansbury
Tiffany Stansbury is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA.The daughter of former NBA player Terence Stansbury, Tiffany Stansbury attended college at NC State and graduated in 2006...

|| June 1, 2010 || free agent
Free agent
In professional sports, a free agent is a player whose contract with a team has expired and who is thus eligible to sign with another club or franchise....


|}

Roster

Depth

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!width="50"|Pos.
!width="250"|Starter
!width="250"|Bench
|-style="height:40px; background:white; color:#092C57"
! style="background:#FFC322" | C
Center (basketball)
The center, colloquially known as the five or the post, is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is normally the tallest player on the team, and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well...


| Tina Thompson
Tina Thompson
Tina Marie Thompson is a professional basketball player in the WNBA for the Los Angeles Sparks. The first draft pick in WNBA history, Thompson was selected first by the Houston Comets. She helped lead the Comets to four WNBA Championships...


| Chanel Mokango
Chanel Mokango
Chanel Mokango is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA.-References:...

 / Candace Parker
Candace Parker
Candace Nicole Parker is an All-American basketball player for the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks and is also the younger sister of NBA player Anthony Parker. She was drafted to the team from Tennessee in 2008...

 
|-style="height:40px; background:white; color:#092C57"
! style="background:#FFC322" | PF
Power forward (basketball)
Power forward is a position in the sport of basketball. The position is referred to in playbook terms as the four position and is commonly abbreviated "PF". It has also been referred to as the "post" position. Power forwards play a role similar to that of center in what is called the "post" or "low...


| Delisha Milton-Jones
DeLisha Milton-Jones
DeLisha Milton-Jones is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association . Milton-Jones played college basketball for the University of Florida. In her twelve-season WNBA career, she has played for the Washington Mystics and Los...


| Lindsay Wisdom-Hylton
Lindsay Wisdom-Hylton
Lindsay Wisdom-Hylton is an American professional basketball player. She attended high school at Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, IL. She currently plays the forward position for the Chicago Sky in the WNBA.-Childhood:...


|-style="height:40px; background:white; color:#092C57"
! style="background:#FFC322" | SF
Small forward
The small forward, or colloquially known as three, is one of the five positions in a regulation basketball game. Small forwards are typically somewhat shorter, quicker, and leaner than power forwards and centers, but on occasion are just as tall...


| Noelle Quinn
Noelle Quinn
Noelle Quinn is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA, currently playing for the Los Angeles Sparks.-High school:...


| Betty Lennox
Betty Lennox
Betty Bernice Lennox is an American professional basketball player most recently playing for the Tulsa Shock in the WNBA. Her nicknames include "Betty Basketball," "Betty Big Buckets," and her most popular nickname "B-Money."-Childhood:Betty grew up in the small town of Grant, OK. Daughter of...

 
|-style="height:40px; background:white; color:#092C57"
! style="background:#FFC322" | SG
Shooting guard
The shooting guard , also known as the two or off guard, is one of five traditional positions on a basketball team. Players of the position are often shorter, leaner, and quicker than forwards. A shooting guard's main objective is to score points for his team...


| Marie Ferdinand-Harris
| Kristi Toliver
Kristi Toliver
Kristi Toliver is a former basketball player for the University of Maryland at College Park. She is from Harrisonburg, Virginia, and has an older sister, Carli. She is the daughter of former NBA referee, George Toliver, and Peggy Toliver.-High school:Attended Harrisonburg High School and...


|-style="height:40px; background:white; color:#092C57"
! style="background:#FFC322" | PG
Point guard
Point guard , also called the play maker or "the ball-handler", is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position – essentially, he is expected to run the team's offense by controlling the ball and making sure that...


| Ticha Penicheiro
Ticha Penicheiro
Ticha Penicheiro is a Portuguese professional basketball player who plays for Los Angeles Sparks in the WNBA...


| Andrea Riley
Andrea Riley
Andrea Riley is a professional basketball player currently playing for the Tulsa Shock of the Women's National Basketball Association . She was drafted 8th overall in the 2010 WNBA Draft by the Sparks....


|}

Preseason

{| class="toccolours" width=90% style="clear:both; margin:1.5em auto; text-align:center;"
|-
! colspan=2 style="background:#5c2f83; color:#FFC322" | 2010 Game Log: Preseason
|- valign="top"
|
The 2010 WNBA season is the 14th season for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association
Women's National Basketball Association
The Women's National Basketball Association is a women's professional basketball league in the United States. It currently is composed of twelve teams. The league was founded on April 24, 1996 as the women's counterpart to the National Basketball Association...

.

Dispersal draft

Based on the Sparks' 2009 record, they would pick 8th in the Sacramento Monarchs
Sacramento Monarchs
The Sacramento Monarchs were a basketball team based in Sacramento, California. They played in the Women's National Basketball Association from 1997 until folding on November 20, 2009...

 dispersal draft
Dispersal draft
A dispersal draft is a process in professional sports for assigning players to a new team when their current team goes out of business, consolidates with another team, or for some other reason ceases to exist. Since most sports drafts are held in North America, this is where most dispersal drafts...

. The Sparks waived their pick.

WNBA Draft

The following are the Sparks' selections in the 2010 WNBA Draft
2010 WNBA Draft
The 2010 WNBA Draft is the league's annual process for determining which teams receive the rights to negotiate with players entering the league. The draft was held on April 8, 2010. The first round was shown on ESPN2 , while the second and third rounds were shown on NBA TV and ESPNU.A lottery was...

.
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! style="background:#5c2f83; color:#FFC322;" width="10%"| Nationality
! style="background:#5c2f83; color:#FFC322;" width="10%"| School/Team/Country
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| 1
| 8
| Andrea Riley
Andrea Riley
Andrea Riley is a professional basketball player currently playing for the Tulsa Shock of the Women's National Basketball Association . She was drafted 8th overall in the 2010 WNBA Draft by the Sparks....


|
| Oklahoma State
|-
| 1
| 12 (from Phx.
Phoenix Mercury
The Phoenix Mercury is a professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the league's inaugural 1997 season began; it is one of the eight original franchises...

)
| Bianca Thomas
|
| Mississippi
University of Mississippi
The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public, coeducational research university located in Oxford, Mississippi. Founded in 1844, the school is composed of the main campus in Oxford, four branch campuses located in Booneville, Grenada, Tupelo, and Southaven as well as the...


|-
| 2
| 20
| Angel Robinson
|
| Georgia
University of Georgia
The University of Georgia is a public research university located in Athens, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1785, it is the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning and is one of multiple schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States...


|-
| 3
| 32
| Rashidat Junaid
|
| Rutgers
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...


|-
|}

Transaction log

  • March 26, 2009: The Sparks signed-and-traded Temeka Johnson to the Phoenix Mercury for Phoenix's first-round pick in the 2010 draft.
  • May 5, 2009: The Sparks traded Rafaella Masciadri and a previously acquired first-round pick in the 2010 draft to the Minnesota Lynx in exchange for Noelle Quinn.
  • February 9: The Sparks signed free agent Ticha Penicheiro.
  • February 16: The Sparks signed LaToya Pringle.
  • April 29: The Sparks waived Angel Robinson.
  • May 7: The Sparks waived Vanessa Hayden.
  • May 11: The Sparks signed Lisa Willis and waived Karina Figueroa.
  • May 13: The Sparks traded a second-round pick in the 2011 Draft to the Chicago Sky in exchange for Kristi Toliver.
  • May 13: The Sparks waived LaToya Pringle, Lisa Willis and Rashidat Junaid.
  • May 14: The Sparks waived Shannon Bobbitt and Bianca Thomas.
  • June 1: The Sparks waived Tiffany Stansbury and signed Chanel Mokango.

Trades

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! style="background:#5c2f83;color:#FFC322;" colspan=2|Trade
|-
| rowspan=2|March 26, 2009
| width=375|To Los Angeles Sparks
Los Angeles Sparks
The Los Angeles Sparks is a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the league's inaugural 1997 season began...


| width=375|To Phoenix Mercury
Phoenix Mercury
The Phoenix Mercury is a professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the league's inaugural 1997 season began; it is one of the eight original franchises...


|-
| first-round pick in 2010 draft
| Temeka Johnson
Temeka Johnson
Temeka Rochelle Johnson is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA. Her primary position is point guard.-College years:...


|-
| rowspan=2|May 5, 2009
| width=375|To Los Angeles Sparks
Los Angeles Sparks
The Los Angeles Sparks is a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the league's inaugural 1997 season began...


| width=375|To Minnesota Lynx
Minnesota Lynx
The Minnesota Lynx are a professional basketball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded prior to the 1999 season...


|-
| Noelle Quinn
Noelle Quinn
Noelle Quinn is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA, currently playing for the Los Angeles Sparks.-High school:...


| Rafaella Masciadri and a first-round pick in 2010 draft
|-
| rowspan=2|May 13, 2010
| width=375|To Los Angeles Sparks
Los Angeles Sparks
The Los Angeles Sparks is a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the league's inaugural 1997 season began...


| width=375|To Chicago Sky
Chicago Sky
The Chicago Sky is a professional basketball team based in Rosemont, Illinois, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2006 WNBA season began. The team is owned by Michael J. Alter and Margaret Stender...


|-
| Kristi Toliver
Kristi Toliver
Kristi Toliver is a former basketball player for the University of Maryland at College Park. She is from Harrisonburg, Virginia, and has an older sister, Carli. She is the daughter of former NBA referee, George Toliver, and Peggy Toliver.-High school:Attended Harrisonburg High School and...


| second-round pick in 2011 draft
|}

Additions

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| style="background:#5c2f83;color:#FFC322; width:140px"|Player
| style="background:#5c2f83;color:#FFC322; width:100px"|Signed
| style="background:#5c2f83;color:#FFC322; width:210px"|Former team
|- style="height:40px"
| Ticha Penicheiro
Ticha Penicheiro
Ticha Penicheiro is a Portuguese professional basketball player who plays for Los Angeles Sparks in the WNBA...

|| February 9, 2010 || Sacramento Monarchs
Sacramento Monarchs
The Sacramento Monarchs were a basketball team based in Sacramento, California. They played in the Women's National Basketball Association from 1997 until folding on November 20, 2009...


|- style="height:40px"
| Kristi Toliver
Kristi Toliver
Kristi Toliver is a former basketball player for the University of Maryland at College Park. She is from Harrisonburg, Virginia, and has an older sister, Carli. She is the daughter of former NBA referee, George Toliver, and Peggy Toliver.-High school:Attended Harrisonburg High School and...

|| May 13, 2010 || Chicago Sky
Chicago Sky
The Chicago Sky is a professional basketball team based in Rosemont, Illinois, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2006 WNBA season began. The team is owned by Michael J. Alter and Margaret Stender...


|- style="height:40px"
| Tiffany Stansbury
Tiffany Stansbury
Tiffany Stansbury is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA.The daughter of former NBA player Terence Stansbury, Tiffany Stansbury attended college at NC State and graduated in 2006...

|| May 15, 2010 || free agent
Free agent
In professional sports, a free agent is a player whose contract with a team has expired and who is thus eligible to sign with another club or franchise....


|- style="height:40px"
| Chanel Mokango
Chanel Mokango
Chanel Mokango is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA.-References:...

|| June 1, 2010 || free agent
Free agent
In professional sports, a free agent is a player whose contract with a team has expired and who is thus eligible to sign with another club or franchise....


|}

Subtractions

{|class="navbox wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|- align="center" bgcolor="#dddddd"
| style="background:#5c2f83;color:#FFC322; width:140px"|Player
| style="background:#5c2f83;color:#FFC322; width:100px"|Left
| style="background:#5c2f83;color:#FFC322; width:210px"|New team
|- style="height:40px"
| Lisa Leslie
Lisa Leslie
Lisa Deshaun Leslie-Lockwood is a former American professional women's basketball player in the WNBA. She is a three-time WNBA MVP and a four-time Olympic gold medal winner...

|| 2009 || retired
|- style="height:40px"
| Vanessa Hayden || May 7, 2009 || free agent
|- style="height:40px"
| Shannon Bobbitt
Shannon Bobbitt
Shannon Denise Bobbitt is an American professional basketball player for the WNBA's Indiana Fever. One of eight children and a native of the Bronx, New York Bobbitt honed her basketball skills on the neighborhood project courts of Harlem...

|| May 14, 2009 || free agent
|- style="height:40px"
| Tiffany Stansbury
Tiffany Stansbury
Tiffany Stansbury is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA.The daughter of former NBA player Terence Stansbury, Tiffany Stansbury attended college at NC State and graduated in 2006...

|| June 1, 2010 || free agent
Free agent
In professional sports, a free agent is a player whose contract with a team has expired and who is thus eligible to sign with another club or franchise....


|}

Roster

Depth

{| style="text-align: center; background:#5c2f83; color:#FFC322"
!width="50"|Pos.
!width="250"|Starter
!width="250"|Bench
|-style="height:40px; background:white; color:#092C57"
! style="background:#FFC322" | C
Center (basketball)
The center, colloquially known as the five or the post, is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is normally the tallest player on the team, and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well...


| Tina Thompson
Tina Thompson
Tina Marie Thompson is a professional basketball player in the WNBA for the Los Angeles Sparks. The first draft pick in WNBA history, Thompson was selected first by the Houston Comets. She helped lead the Comets to four WNBA Championships...


| Chanel Mokango
Chanel Mokango
Chanel Mokango is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA.-References:...

 / Candace Parker
Candace Parker
Candace Nicole Parker is an All-American basketball player for the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks and is also the younger sister of NBA player Anthony Parker. She was drafted to the team from Tennessee in 2008...

 
|-style="height:40px; background:white; color:#092C57"
! style="background:#FFC322" | PF
Power forward (basketball)
Power forward is a position in the sport of basketball. The position is referred to in playbook terms as the four position and is commonly abbreviated "PF". It has also been referred to as the "post" position. Power forwards play a role similar to that of center in what is called the "post" or "low...


| Delisha Milton-Jones
DeLisha Milton-Jones
DeLisha Milton-Jones is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association . Milton-Jones played college basketball for the University of Florida. In her twelve-season WNBA career, she has played for the Washington Mystics and Los...


| Lindsay Wisdom-Hylton
Lindsay Wisdom-Hylton
Lindsay Wisdom-Hylton is an American professional basketball player. She attended high school at Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, IL. She currently plays the forward position for the Chicago Sky in the WNBA.-Childhood:...


|-style="height:40px; background:white; color:#092C57"
! style="background:#FFC322" | SF
Small forward
The small forward, or colloquially known as three, is one of the five positions in a regulation basketball game. Small forwards are typically somewhat shorter, quicker, and leaner than power forwards and centers, but on occasion are just as tall...


| Noelle Quinn
Noelle Quinn
Noelle Quinn is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA, currently playing for the Los Angeles Sparks.-High school:...


| Betty Lennox
Betty Lennox
Betty Bernice Lennox is an American professional basketball player most recently playing for the Tulsa Shock in the WNBA. Her nicknames include "Betty Basketball," "Betty Big Buckets," and her most popular nickname "B-Money."-Childhood:Betty grew up in the small town of Grant, OK. Daughter of...

 
|-style="height:40px; background:white; color:#092C57"
! style="background:#FFC322" | SG
Shooting guard
The shooting guard , also known as the two or off guard, is one of five traditional positions on a basketball team. Players of the position are often shorter, leaner, and quicker than forwards. A shooting guard's main objective is to score points for his team...


| Marie Ferdinand-Harris
| Kristi Toliver
Kristi Toliver
Kristi Toliver is a former basketball player for the University of Maryland at College Park. She is from Harrisonburg, Virginia, and has an older sister, Carli. She is the daughter of former NBA referee, George Toliver, and Peggy Toliver.-High school:Attended Harrisonburg High School and...


|-style="height:40px; background:white; color:#092C57"
! style="background:#FFC322" | PG
Point guard
Point guard , also called the play maker or "the ball-handler", is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position – essentially, he is expected to run the team's offense by controlling the ball and making sure that...


| Ticha Penicheiro
Ticha Penicheiro
Ticha Penicheiro is a Portuguese professional basketball player who plays for Los Angeles Sparks in the WNBA...


| Andrea Riley
Andrea Riley
Andrea Riley is a professional basketball player currently playing for the Tulsa Shock of the Women's National Basketball Association . She was drafted 8th overall in the 2010 WNBA Draft by the Sparks....


|}

Preseason

{| class="toccolours" width=90% style="clear:both; margin:1.5em auto; text-align:center;"
|-
! colspan=2 style="background:#5c2f83; color:#FFC322" | 2010 Game Log: Preseason
|- valign="top"
|
The 2010 WNBA season is the 14th season for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association
Women's National Basketball Association
The Women's National Basketball Association is a women's professional basketball league in the United States. It currently is composed of twelve teams. The league was founded on April 24, 1996 as the women's counterpart to the National Basketball Association...

.

Dispersal draft

Based on the Sparks' 2009 record, they would pick 8th in the Sacramento Monarchs
Sacramento Monarchs
The Sacramento Monarchs were a basketball team based in Sacramento, California. They played in the Women's National Basketball Association from 1997 until folding on November 20, 2009...

 dispersal draft
Dispersal draft
A dispersal draft is a process in professional sports for assigning players to a new team when their current team goes out of business, consolidates with another team, or for some other reason ceases to exist. Since most sports drafts are held in North America, this is where most dispersal drafts...

. The Sparks waived their pick.

WNBA Draft

The following are the Sparks' selections in the 2010 WNBA Draft
2010 WNBA Draft
The 2010 WNBA Draft is the league's annual process for determining which teams receive the rights to negotiate with players entering the league. The draft was held on April 8, 2010. The first round was shown on ESPN2 , while the second and third rounds were shown on NBA TV and ESPNU.A lottery was...

.
{| class="navbox wikitable"
! style="background:#5c2f83; color:#FFC322;" width="2%"| Round
! style="background:#5c2f83; color:#FFC322;" width="5%"| Pick
! style="background:#5c2f83; color:#FFC322;" width="10%"| Player
! style="background:#5c2f83; color:#FFC322;" width="10%"| Nationality
! style="background:#5c2f83; color:#FFC322;" width="10%"| School/Team/Country
|-
| 1
| 8
| Andrea Riley
Andrea Riley
Andrea Riley is a professional basketball player currently playing for the Tulsa Shock of the Women's National Basketball Association . She was drafted 8th overall in the 2010 WNBA Draft by the Sparks....


|
| Oklahoma State
|-
| 1
| 12 (from Phx.
Phoenix Mercury
The Phoenix Mercury is a professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the league's inaugural 1997 season began; it is one of the eight original franchises...

)
| Bianca Thomas
|
| Mississippi
University of Mississippi
The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public, coeducational research university located in Oxford, Mississippi. Founded in 1844, the school is composed of the main campus in Oxford, four branch campuses located in Booneville, Grenada, Tupelo, and Southaven as well as the...


|-
| 2
| 20
| Angel Robinson
|
| Georgia
University of Georgia
The University of Georgia is a public research university located in Athens, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1785, it is the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning and is one of multiple schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States...


|-
| 3
| 32
| Rashidat Junaid
|
| Rutgers
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...


|-
|}

Transaction log

  • March 26, 2009: The Sparks signed-and-traded Temeka Johnson to the Phoenix Mercury for Phoenix's first-round pick in the 2010 draft.
  • May 5, 2009: The Sparks traded Rafaella Masciadri and a previously acquired first-round pick in the 2010 draft to the Minnesota Lynx in exchange for Noelle Quinn.
  • February 9: The Sparks signed free agent Ticha Penicheiro.
  • February 16: The Sparks signed LaToya Pringle.
  • April 29: The Sparks waived Angel Robinson.
  • May 7: The Sparks waived Vanessa Hayden.
  • May 11: The Sparks signed Lisa Willis and waived Karina Figueroa.
  • May 13: The Sparks traded a second-round pick in the 2011 Draft to the Chicago Sky in exchange for Kristi Toliver.
  • May 13: The Sparks waived LaToya Pringle, Lisa Willis and Rashidat Junaid.
  • May 14: The Sparks waived Shannon Bobbitt and Bianca Thomas.
  • June 1: The Sparks waived Tiffany Stansbury and signed Chanel Mokango.

Trades

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! style="background:#5c2f83;color:#FFC322; width=125"|Date
! style="background:#5c2f83;color:#FFC322;" colspan=2|Trade
|-
| rowspan=2|March 26, 2009
| width=375|To Los Angeles Sparks
Los Angeles Sparks
The Los Angeles Sparks is a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the league's inaugural 1997 season began...


| width=375|To Phoenix Mercury
Phoenix Mercury
The Phoenix Mercury is a professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the league's inaugural 1997 season began; it is one of the eight original franchises...


|-
| first-round pick in 2010 draft
| Temeka Johnson
Temeka Johnson
Temeka Rochelle Johnson is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA. Her primary position is point guard.-College years:...


|-
| rowspan=2|May 5, 2009
| width=375|To Los Angeles Sparks
Los Angeles Sparks
The Los Angeles Sparks is a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the league's inaugural 1997 season began...


| width=375|To Minnesota Lynx
Minnesota Lynx
The Minnesota Lynx are a professional basketball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded prior to the 1999 season...


|-
| Noelle Quinn
Noelle Quinn
Noelle Quinn is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA, currently playing for the Los Angeles Sparks.-High school:...


| Rafaella Masciadri and a first-round pick in 2010 draft
|-
| rowspan=2|May 13, 2010
| width=375|To Los Angeles Sparks
Los Angeles Sparks
The Los Angeles Sparks is a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the league's inaugural 1997 season began...


| width=375|To Chicago Sky
Chicago Sky
The Chicago Sky is a professional basketball team based in Rosemont, Illinois, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2006 WNBA season began. The team is owned by Michael J. Alter and Margaret Stender...


|-
| Kristi Toliver
Kristi Toliver
Kristi Toliver is a former basketball player for the University of Maryland at College Park. She is from Harrisonburg, Virginia, and has an older sister, Carli. She is the daughter of former NBA referee, George Toliver, and Peggy Toliver.-High school:Attended Harrisonburg High School and...


| second-round pick in 2011 draft
|}

Additions

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| valign="top" |
{|class="navbox wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|- align="center" bgcolor="#dddddd"
| style="background:#5c2f83;color:#FFC322; width:140px"|Player
| style="background:#5c2f83;color:#FFC322; width:100px"|Signed
| style="background:#5c2f83;color:#FFC322; width:210px"|Former team
|- style="height:40px"
| Ticha Penicheiro
Ticha Penicheiro
Ticha Penicheiro is a Portuguese professional basketball player who plays for Los Angeles Sparks in the WNBA...

|| February 9, 2010 || Sacramento Monarchs
Sacramento Monarchs
The Sacramento Monarchs were a basketball team based in Sacramento, California. They played in the Women's National Basketball Association from 1997 until folding on November 20, 2009...


|- style="height:40px"
| Kristi Toliver
Kristi Toliver
Kristi Toliver is a former basketball player for the University of Maryland at College Park. She is from Harrisonburg, Virginia, and has an older sister, Carli. She is the daughter of former NBA referee, George Toliver, and Peggy Toliver.-High school:Attended Harrisonburg High School and...

|| May 13, 2010 || Chicago Sky
Chicago Sky
The Chicago Sky is a professional basketball team based in Rosemont, Illinois, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2006 WNBA season began. The team is owned by Michael J. Alter and Margaret Stender...


|- style="height:40px"
| Tiffany Stansbury
Tiffany Stansbury
Tiffany Stansbury is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA.The daughter of former NBA player Terence Stansbury, Tiffany Stansbury attended college at NC State and graduated in 2006...

|| May 15, 2010 || free agent
Free agent
In professional sports, a free agent is a player whose contract with a team has expired and who is thus eligible to sign with another club or franchise....


|- style="height:40px"
| Chanel Mokango
Chanel Mokango
Chanel Mokango is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA.-References:...

|| June 1, 2010 || free agent
Free agent
In professional sports, a free agent is a player whose contract with a team has expired and who is thus eligible to sign with another club or franchise....


|}

Subtractions

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|- align="center" bgcolor="#dddddd"
| style="background:#5c2f83;color:#FFC322; width:140px"|Player
| style="background:#5c2f83;color:#FFC322; width:100px"|Left
| style="background:#5c2f83;color:#FFC322; width:210px"|New team
|- style="height:40px"
| Lisa Leslie
Lisa Leslie
Lisa Deshaun Leslie-Lockwood is a former American professional women's basketball player in the WNBA. She is a three-time WNBA MVP and a four-time Olympic gold medal winner...

|| 2009 || retired
|- style="height:40px"
| Vanessa Hayden || May 7, 2009 || free agent
|- style="height:40px"
| Shannon Bobbitt
Shannon Bobbitt
Shannon Denise Bobbitt is an American professional basketball player for the WNBA's Indiana Fever. One of eight children and a native of the Bronx, New York Bobbitt honed her basketball skills on the neighborhood project courts of Harlem...

|| May 14, 2009 || free agent
|- style="height:40px"
| Tiffany Stansbury
Tiffany Stansbury
Tiffany Stansbury is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA.The daughter of former NBA player Terence Stansbury, Tiffany Stansbury attended college at NC State and graduated in 2006...

|| June 1, 2010 || free agent
Free agent
In professional sports, a free agent is a player whose contract with a team has expired and who is thus eligible to sign with another club or franchise....


|}

Roster

Depth

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!width="50"|Pos.
!width="250"|Starter
!width="250"|Bench
|-style="height:40px; background:white; color:#092C57"
! style="background:#FFC322" | C
Center (basketball)
The center, colloquially known as the five or the post, is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is normally the tallest player on the team, and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well...


| Tina Thompson
Tina Thompson
Tina Marie Thompson is a professional basketball player in the WNBA for the Los Angeles Sparks. The first draft pick in WNBA history, Thompson was selected first by the Houston Comets. She helped lead the Comets to four WNBA Championships...


| Chanel Mokango
Chanel Mokango
Chanel Mokango is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA.-References:...

 / Candace Parker
Candace Parker
Candace Nicole Parker is an All-American basketball player for the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks and is also the younger sister of NBA player Anthony Parker. She was drafted to the team from Tennessee in 2008...

 
|-style="height:40px; background:white; color:#092C57"
! style="background:#FFC322" | PF
Power forward (basketball)
Power forward is a position in the sport of basketball. The position is referred to in playbook terms as the four position and is commonly abbreviated "PF". It has also been referred to as the "post" position. Power forwards play a role similar to that of center in what is called the "post" or "low...


| Delisha Milton-Jones
DeLisha Milton-Jones
DeLisha Milton-Jones is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association . Milton-Jones played college basketball for the University of Florida. In her twelve-season WNBA career, she has played for the Washington Mystics and Los...


| Lindsay Wisdom-Hylton
Lindsay Wisdom-Hylton
Lindsay Wisdom-Hylton is an American professional basketball player. She attended high school at Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, IL. She currently plays the forward position for the Chicago Sky in the WNBA.-Childhood:...


|-style="height:40px; background:white; color:#092C57"
! style="background:#FFC322" | SF
Small forward
The small forward, or colloquially known as three, is one of the five positions in a regulation basketball game. Small forwards are typically somewhat shorter, quicker, and leaner than power forwards and centers, but on occasion are just as tall...


| Noelle Quinn
Noelle Quinn
Noelle Quinn is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA, currently playing for the Los Angeles Sparks.-High school:...


| Betty Lennox
Betty Lennox
Betty Bernice Lennox is an American professional basketball player most recently playing for the Tulsa Shock in the WNBA. Her nicknames include "Betty Basketball," "Betty Big Buckets," and her most popular nickname "B-Money."-Childhood:Betty grew up in the small town of Grant, OK. Daughter of...

 
|-style="height:40px; background:white; color:#092C57"
! style="background:#FFC322" | SG
Shooting guard
The shooting guard , also known as the two or off guard, is one of five traditional positions on a basketball team. Players of the position are often shorter, leaner, and quicker than forwards. A shooting guard's main objective is to score points for his team...


| Marie Ferdinand-Harris
| Kristi Toliver
Kristi Toliver
Kristi Toliver is a former basketball player for the University of Maryland at College Park. She is from Harrisonburg, Virginia, and has an older sister, Carli. She is the daughter of former NBA referee, George Toliver, and Peggy Toliver.-High school:Attended Harrisonburg High School and...


|-style="height:40px; background:white; color:#092C57"
! style="background:#FFC322" | PG
Point guard
Point guard , also called the play maker or "the ball-handler", is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position – essentially, he is expected to run the team's offense by controlling the ball and making sure that...


| Ticha Penicheiro
Ticha Penicheiro
Ticha Penicheiro is a Portuguese professional basketball player who plays for Los Angeles Sparks in the WNBA...


| Andrea Riley
Andrea Riley
Andrea Riley is a professional basketball player currently playing for the Tulsa Shock of the Women's National Basketball Association . She was drafted 8th overall in the 2010 WNBA Draft by the Sparks....


|}

Preseason

{| class="toccolours" width=90% style="clear:both; margin:1.5em auto; text-align:center;"
|-
! colspan=2 style="background:#5c2f83; color:#FFC322" | 2010 Game Log: Preseason
|- valign="top"
|
 
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