{"id":764775,"date":"2026-07-15T17:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/764775\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:56:08","slug":"sparks-news-how-cameron-brink-worked-her-a-off-to-make-injury-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/764775\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparks news: How Cameron Brink \u2019worked her a** off\u2019 to make injury return"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles Sparks<\/a> are set to get a major piece back in the lineup with the injury return of Cameron Brink<\/a> as the team continues through a four-game road trip. Brink has been sidelined for the past eight games since suffering an ankle injury back on June 15 during the Sparks\u2019 loss to the Golden State Valkyries.<\/p>\n

But with three more games left on the current road trip, the Sparks will have their best defensive player back on the court as they try and mount a surge in the league standings with the All-Star break approaching. As per head coach Lynne Roberts, Brink is going to be on a minutes restriction<\/a> for the time being.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s been working. Her ankle sprain was really bad and she came back. She\u2019s worked her a** off to get where she is right now. So she\u2019s thrilled and obviously so are we,\u201d Roberts said prior to the Sparks\u2019 game against the Minnesota Lynx on Wednesday. \u201cShe hasn\u2019t played in a few weeks so I\u2019m sure there is going to be some nerves and rust a little bit, and that\u2019s to be expected. And I\u2019m fine with that \u2026 it\u2019s rebound presence, it\u2019s rim protection, there\u2019s no one like her in the league in that regard.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo just play to her strengths. Not try to do too much. Again, she\u2019s on a minutes restriction but it will be great to have her as an option coming in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before the injury, Cameron Brink had appeared in 14 games, including one start, at a little over 17 minutes per game. She was averaging a career-best 9.2 points, 4.4 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 1.5 blocked shots with splits of 53.8 percent shooting from the field, 34.4 percent shooting from the 3-point line and 76.2 percent shooting from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n

Her blocks per game were good enough for top five in the league when she was healthy, and she\u2019s been the Sparks\u2019 interior anchor on that end of the court. Brink\u2019s return comes as the Sparks are trying to get back in the win column<\/a> in the immediacy, and make a push in the playoff race overall.<\/p>\n

The team is still waiting on the return of All-Star guard Kelsey Plum, who likely won\u2019t be back until after the All-Star break. But once the team is healthy, Roberts is confident the Sparks can make a major surge over the final months of the regular season, similar to how they did last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith KP coming back at some point, we don\u2019t have a target date circled, we\u2019re getting near to having a date set, or a target,\u201d Roberts continued. \u201cMy hope is that when we start adding these key guys back, arguably our best offensive player and our best defensive player, the rest of the group has kind of found their rhythm and stride, we can make a push here in August and September.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Sparks are set to get a major piece back in the lineup with the injury return of Cameron Brink as the team continues through a four-game road trip. Brink has been sidelined for the past eight games since suffering an ankle injury back on June 15 during the Sparks\u2019 loss to the Golden State Valkyries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Sparks are set to get a major piece back in the lineup with the injury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[5041,3029,581,99,434,70753],"class_list":["post-764775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-cameron-brink","tag-los-angeles-sparks","tag-reporting","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-injury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}