MINNEAPOLIS  — Through injuries, trades and upheaval, the Minnesota Lynx have struggled at times to find their footing this season.

They have overcome the unfamiliar feelings of instability to land in a most familiar spot — one step away from the WNBA Finals.

Maya Moore had 20 points and eight rebounds to help the balanced Lynx advance to the Western Conference finals with a 91-80 victory over the Los Angeles Sparks in Game 3 of the conference semifinals Tuesday night.

Moore was just 6 for 21 from the floor, but Seimone Augustus added 16 points and Deveraux Peters scored 12 big points off the bench to push the top-seeded Lynx into their fifth straight conference finals. They will play Phoenix, which swept Tulsa in the other semifinal. Game 1 is tonight in Minnesota.

“The longer this team plays, the better we’re going to get,” Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve said.

Candace Parker had 28 points and 13 rebounds for the Sparks, who haven’t been to the conference finals since 2012. They trailed by 14 points in the first half but rallied to cut the deficit to one in the fourth quarter.

The Lynx responded with a 9-0 run to hold off Los Angeles.

“We were stagnant in the first half and we shot ourselves in the foot,” Parker said. “But we were able to bounce back and make it a game.”

Minnesota outscored Los Angeles 22-4 in second-chance points and converted 15 turnovers into 20 points to improve to 18-2 all-time at home in the postseason, the best record in WNBA history.

“That was the Lynx team I was hoping for in that we were aggressive in everything that we did,” Reeve said.