In 2022, Sparks' HC and GM Derek Fisher signed high-profile free agent Liz Cambage with hopes of 'racking up championships.' Neither one of them finished the season in Los Angeles. From the archives: sabreenajm on the WNBA’s worst performance of 2022:
The player who missed the first 13 games due to offseason commitments ended up being Toliver, as the Dallas Mavericks made an unexpected run to the Western Conference finals. By the time the veteran leader returned, Fisher was out.The lengths Fisher went to sign and then mollify Cambage might have been justified had Cambage played like a star, but that wasn’t the case.
There was also an off-court scandal: a video released of Cambage, who played for Team Australia, showed her elbowing a Nigerian player during a pre-Olympic scrimmage in 2021, and she reportedly directed racial slurs at the Nigerian team — an allegation she has denied. The initial incident led Cambage to withdraw from theand she was given a formal reprimand by Basketball Australia. The situation was unpleasant and uncomfortable, especially because L.A.
In hindsight, it should have raised some red flags that the Aces, a team competing for a title, didn’t seem all that broken up about losing Cambage from their championship pursuit in 2022. It wasn’t that the Aces couldn’t make do without a center on the court, but rather that they didn’t need Cambage. And they seemed to take particular pride in going after Cambage, as they did to the tune of 39 first-quarter points — then a franchise record — in their first meeting with the Sparks.
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