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The Minnesota Lynx got two picks in the top five in the WNBA draft lottery, including the top pick in the 2010 WNBA draft, the league announced Thursday.

Did you have some big dreams when you were 12? Did you say to yourself, "I want to do this someday, and here is where I want to do it?" Terrence Vaccaro/NBAE/Getty Images UCLA grad Noelle Quinn, who has become a key figure in the Sparks' backcourt, returns to Pauley Pavilion when L.A. hosts Phoenix in Game 1 of the West finals.

Lisa Leslie scored 19 points in her last regular-season home game for Los Angeles and Tina Thompson also had 19 for the Sparks in a 90-61 rout of the Minnesota Lynx on Friday.

The Los Angeles Sparks clinched a trip to the playoffs with a win in their last game.

Becky Hammon scored 29 points and made a clinching free throw in the second overtime, leading the San Antonio Silver Stars to an 84-82 victory over the Minnesota Lynx on Tuesday night.

Kelly Miller scored 18 points for Minnesota and the Lynx made 16 3-pointers and hung on for a 100-95 victory over the Sacramento Monarchs on Friday night.

Lisa Leslie scored a season-high 28 points to lead the Los Angeles Sparks to a 78-63 victory over the Minnesota Lynx on Wednesday night.

Playing in the final stretch of her career, Lisa Leslie showed she can still dominate a game.

Lynx at a glance: Minnesota has lost three games in a row and is only 2-8 in its past 10 games.

Lisa Leslie scored a season-high 28 points to lead the Los Angeles Sparks to a 78-63 victory over the Minnesota Lynx on Wednesday night.

Lindsey Harding has played in every game for Washington this season after being hampered by injuries during her first two years with Minnesota.

Lisa Leslie has become the first WNBA player to score 6,000 career points. Leslie reached the milestone in the second quarter of the Los Angeles Sparks' game against the Indiana Fever, making an 11-foot jumper as the shot-clock buzzer sounded with 11.9 seconds left before halftime.

July 27, 2009 - The 2009 WNBA season and the Pick One Challenge heads into the second half of the season after the All-Star game took over the Mohegan Sun on Saturday.

When you lose, you think a lot about what you can learn from your loss, how maybe it was really a blessing in disguise, a learning experience, perhaps a wake-up call to get your act together.

Before the running drills started, Sparks Coach Michael Cooper offered a stern warning to backup center Vanessa Hayden .

With only one playoff victory on the franchise's record, the Minnesota Lynx have begun their 11th WNBA season after another revamp.

Penn State football coach Joe Paterno said Tuesday that an incident involving marijuana found in an apartment rented to four Nittany Lions players has been "blown way out of proportion." Court documents say campus police called to the on-campus housing complex to break up a party the night of the Blue-White scrimmage April 25 discovered "marijuana ...

The Lynx continued to try to reshape their team by trading point guard Noelle Quinn to Los Angeles in a three-team deal.

The Los Angeles Sparks have acquired guard Noelle Quinn from the Minnesota Lynx and traded guard Sidney Spencer to the New York Liberty.