When Feaster returned to the WNBA in 2000, the pieces were in place for the Sparks to have a breakthrough season. Under new head coach, 1987 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Michael Cooper, the Sparks went 28-4 and twice beat the three-time defending WNBA Champion Houston Comets en route to wining the Western Conference's regular-season crown.

Feaster flourished in her sixth-man role. She averaged a career-high 6.3 points-per-game, and set a new single-game-high point total with 18 against Sacramento in July. She led all Sparks players with an 83.3 percent free-throw percentage on the season.

With Los Angeles playing well and gaining plenty of national television exposure, it was easy for current Harvard players and Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith to follow her progress this summer.

"She played great," Delaney-Smith said. "I just thought she was a wonderful sixth player for them. I thought she had a great role."

Every time Feaster came off the bench for the Sparks, the oft-repeated commentary was, "Feaster would be a starter for any other team in WNBA."

Next year, Feaster may well be a WNBA starter. She was traded in the off-season to the Charlotte Sting (8-24), the cellar team of the Eastern Conference.

"I know she loves the Sparks, but if she could be traded and start for someone, she'd be happier," Delaney-Smith said.