Year Nine doesn’t often present a player with a career-best season, but as Azurá Stevens and the red-hot-in-July Sparks have proven, greatness doesn’t always work on a set schedule. Extraordinary enough to stand as one of this year’s premier All-Star snubs, Stevens helps Los Angeles draw a possession closer to securing July 13, 2025’s win, countering Aneesah Morrow’s hard closeout with a fake-and-stepback, followed by a clutch 3-point basket. Stevens’ name could be heard through the arena's loudspeakers often, as she compiled 21 points — including one eight-points-in-67-seconds stretch immediately out of halftime — joined by 11 rebounds, two steals, one block, and five 3-pointers. Victory accompanied, as Stevens paired her campaign's seventh different 20-point outburst with a victory over the Connecticut Sun, momentum that immediately propelled the Los Angeles Sparks to a five-game winning streak. · Jul 13, 2025