SPARKS TAKE FIRST STEP IN PLAYOFFS AT SACRAMENTO.Byline: Ben Villa Staff Writer Members of the Sparks have been playing with a bad taste in their mouth all season long after losing to Detroit in the WNBA Finals The WNBA Finals is the championship series of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), held in early September and played under a best-of-five playoff format. The team winning the Eastern Conference Finals earns one of the two seeds in the championship round, with the last year. Starting tonight, however, they can take the first step toward ridding themselves of that bitterness. After finishing the regular season with the best record in the WNBA WNBA Women's National Basketball Association WNBA World Ninepin Bowling Association WNBA Wannabe Nasty Boys Association WNBA Women's National Book Association, Inc. WNBA Warszawski Nurt Basketu Amatorskiego , the Sparks begin a quest for Verb 1. quest for - go in search of or hunt for; "pursue a hobby" quest after, go after, pursue look for, search, seek - try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the their third championship in the last four years when they open the playoffs tonight in a 7:30 game at Sacramento. The Sparks and Monarchs will play a best-of-three series. ``We want another championship very bad,'' Sparks guard Nikki Teasley Nikki Teasley (born March 22, 1979 in Washington, D.C.) is a basketball player for the Washington Mystics in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. said. ``We felt we let last year's series against Detroit slip away, but hopefully we can get back to that same situation and we won't have the same thing happen. ``Sacramento is a great team though, and Arco Arena Current arenas in the National Basketball Association Western Conference Eastern Conference is one of the toughest places to play in the WNBA. We just have to go out and rebound, play hard and match their intensity for 40 minutes. That's why we brought in guys to practice against on Wednesday, so we can get used to playing physical.'' SPARKS vs. SACRAMENTO What: WNBA Western Conference playoffs. Series: First round, best of three. When: Game 1 - tonight, 7:30, Arco Arena; Game 2 - Sunday, 1 p.m., Staples Center; Game 3 - (if necessary) Tuesday, 7 p.m., Staples Center. TV/Radio: ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network 2, Games 1 and 3; Ch. 7, Game 2; All games on 1220-AM. CAPTION(S): box Box: SPARKS vs. SACRAMENTO (see text) |
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