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Marina Mabrey delivered one of the most prolific individual performances in WNBA history on Thursday night, matching the league's all-time single-game scoring record with 53 points as the Toronto Tempo routed the Los Angeles Sparks 125-94.
The mark puts Mabrey alongside A'ja Wilson and Liz Cambage as the only players ever to reach that threshold in a regular-season game. A Historic Scoring Run, Built in Real Time Mabrey was in command from the opening tip.
She had already put up 27 by halftime — a pace that had the building buzzing — and added 12 more in the third quarter to reach 39 heading into the fourth.
At that point, the Tempo's lead was insurmountable, and the team made a deliberate decision to feed Mabrey repeatedly, running offense designed to get her open looks from deep.
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