{"id":14008,"date":"2022-02-09T08:48:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T08:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wnba-former-ace-liz-cambage-makes-los-angeles-sparks-relevant\/"},"modified":"2022-02-09T08:48:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T08:48:15","slug":"wnba-former-ace-liz-cambage-makes-los-angeles-sparks-relevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wnba-former-ace-liz-cambage-makes-los-angeles-sparks-relevant\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA: Former Ace Liz Cambage makes Los Angeles Sparks relevant"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Liz Cambage is reportedly bringing all of her personality and swag to Los Angeles. She\u2019s also bringing a resume that includes the WNBA\u2019s highest single-game scoring performance (53 points), the scoring title the year she accomplished that, four All-Star appearances in five WNBA seasons, an All-WNBA First Team selection and a Second Team selection.<\/p>\n

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Free agent center @ecambage<\/a> has verbally committed to play for the @LASparks<\/a> , sources told ESPN Saturday night. Cambage is expected to play a major role for LA alongside @nnekaogwumike<\/a> and @chiney<\/a> once the deal is signed. She\u2019s also one of the most marketable stars in the WNBA.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) February 6, 2022<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Cambage is 30 years old, and who\u2019s to say she can\u2019t be one of the best players in the league in 2022?<\/p>\n

She came in at No. 4 on Swish Appeal<\/em>\u2019s Top 30 player list prior to the 2021 season. As it turned out, she was not a Top 10 player last year. She took a back seat to A\u2019ja Wilson in terms of how much the Aces offense focused on her and didn\u2019t put up superstar numbers. She was still perhaps a Top 15 player, averaging 14.2 points, 8.2 rebounds, and 1.6 blocks per game and earning an All-Star nod.<\/p>\n

In the 2021 playoffs, Cambage averaged just 10.4 points and 5.4 rebounds over five games and was unable to get the Aces past the Phoenix Mercury. Of course, Cambage put up these regular-season and postseason numbers while not playing a whole lot of minutes (23.2 per game).<\/p>\n

If given the chance to play more minutes with the Sparks, perhaps Cambage can get back to her 2018 form, when she averaged 23 points and 9.7 boards per game. She certainly makes LA a better team, forming a big two with Nneka Ogwumike (No. 9 on Swish Appeal<\/em>\u2019s Top 30 player list).<\/p>\n

The Sparks also have an aging star in Kristi Toliver, a star who has battled through injuries in recent seasons in Chiney Ogwumike, and a bunch of other really good players in Amanda Zahui B., Brittney Sykes and Te\u2019a Cooper. Plus, they’ve added a high ceiling scorer in 2020 lottery pick Chennedy Carter, a player in the same tier as Zahui B. in Katie Lou Samuelson, and a great distributing and defending point guard who has been underrated lately in Jordin Canada.<\/p>\n