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After a stop, he took a step closer to the Atlanta bench, got back to almost that same spot, spun and swished another fadeaway, running past the Hawks as their coach, Quin Snyder, frustratingly called a timeout to try to put a stop to it.

Collins, in a 20-point effort, made a tougher-than-nails fadeaway shot to tie the game with four seconds left to force overtime.

By the midpoint of the first half, he had scored amid a triple team in the paint, pump-faked a defender out of the way before burying an open jumper and added a fadeaway jumper in the lane.

The Sparks were able to get within one point, but a late sequence that consisted of a fadeaway basket from Skylar Diggins-Smith and a Crystal Dangerfield turnover that led to a fastbreak layup from former longtime Sparks forward Nneka Ogwumike stretched the Storm’s lead to five points with under two minutes to go.

He’s going to make a fadeaway or two, or an and-one, or things that other players might not be able to make and be able to move onto the next possession and figure out how to win the game.”