The Sparks secured their third straight win and fourth in their last five games with a 93-86 victory over the Mystics on Tuesday night. Los Angeles shot 51.5% from the field and 41.9% (13 of 31) from 3-point range, matching its season high for made threes.

Dearica Hamby recorded her 48th career double-double, finishing with 24 points on 10-of-14 shooting and a season-high 14 rebounds, including six on the offensive glass to match her career high. The eighth-year veteran also passed Margo Dydek for 27th on the WNBA’s all-time rebounds list.

Azurá Stevens posted 15 points on 6-of-11 shots made and six rebounds, tying Nneka Ogwumike for the third-longest streak in Sparks history with 22 consecutive games of 6+ rebounds. Only Candace Parker (46) and Lisa Leslie (28) have longer streaks.

Kelsey Plum returned from All-Star weekend and became the first player in Sparks history to record 3+ made three-pointers in five straight games. Plum passed Kristi Toliver and Mwadi Mabika, going 3-for-6 from deep and finishing with 11 points, seven assists and two steals.

Rae Burrell contributed a game-high +13 rating, adding seven points, two assists and a block off the bench, while Rickea Jackson notched 22 points (4-for-8 3PT, 4-for-4 FT) and four assists.

Head Coach Lynne Roberts

On what’s changed going into the second half of the season:

“I think it's the same stuff that we talked about when it wasn't going well, right? It's time together. It's getting people healthy. We don't run a traditional system, and it takes time to figure out, just to learn each other and learn where shots are gonna come from and all those things… There's a sense where these guys are starting to play to win, not just play and hope we win. That's a mindset and that's a different mentality. They're figuring that out… The intensity level is different. The talk in the huddles is a little bit different. It’s just starting to really click, and I think they can feel it, I see it. It makes my job easier… and these guys are pros, and they’re elite, and so I've found that the less I do, the better we play, in terms of they can just play off each other and take what the defense gives us, but I thought, defensively, we were pretty dang good tonight. They got us in transition a little bit, we turned it over, and they made us pay, but in the half court, defensively, I thought we were really, really good.”

Dearica Hamby

On the importance of consistency to success throughout the season:

“I just try to show up in any way that I can. Most nights it’s [showing up] offensively, but [I] just try to keep the team in rhythm and continue to encourage us to move the ball and play with each other, and then it finds everybody. Everybody’s buying into the system right now, and we talked about it at the beginning of the year. When we do that, everybody's gonna eat, and we're showing that [in] the last month, I would say.”

Rickea Jackson

On being proud of the team’s perseverance:

“I'm just proud of how we let our frustration fuel us to want to do better and not get in our feelings. We could have easily rolled over against this team, but we continued to punch, we continued to work it out, so I’m just proud of the mentality that we had. That just goes to show our mentality is getting stronger and stronger as a team, and we truly just trust in each other, and we can be anybody when we are playing how we played in the second half.”