Liz Cambage reportedly leaving Los Angeles Sparks
Liz Cambage‘s time with the Los Angeles Sparks seems to be over.
The 30-year-old middle reportedly left the workforce, in keeping with The Ball Out, and Khristina Williams of Girls Talk Sports TV reported Tuesday morning that Cambage “stop” the workforce.
This comes simply 5 months after Cambage said “it was L.A. or out for me. There was nowhere else I wanted to be,” after signing with the Sparks following two years with the Los Vegas Aces. She averaged 13 factors per sport and 6.4 rebounds per sport this season the place the Sparks sit fourth within the Western Convention with a 12-15 file.
Cambage returned to the WNBA in 2018 after a five-year hiatus the place she performed professionally in China and Australia. She set the WNBA file for many factors scored in a sport with 53 in opposition to the New York Liberty when she performed for the Dallas Wings in 2018. Cambage was traded to the Las Vegas Aces in 2019, the place she performed for 2 seasons till signing with the Sparks in 2022 (she sat out the 2020 season because of the COVID-19 pandemic).
It is unclear precisely why Cambage is leaving the Sparks, however this is not the primary controversy to rock Los Angeles. The workforce fired head coach and general manager Derek Fisher in June. In 2021, the Sparks misplaced stalwarts Candace Parker and Chelsea Grey. Parker went on to win the 2021 WNBA championship with the Chicago Sky.
Cambage additionally left the Australian nationwide workforce earlier than the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 for mental health reasons. Nevertheless, it got here out after her departure that Cambage used racially insensitive remarks towards gamers on the Nigerian workforce throughout a observe season and even bodily assaulted a couple of gamers, according to Australian news outlets. Cambage denied these claims.
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