{"id":100010,"date":"2025-08-27T04:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/100010\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T04:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:48:08","slug":"thomas-sets-wnba-single-season-record-with-7-triple-doubles-as-mercury-beat-sparks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/100010\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas sets WNBA single-season record with 7 triple-doubles as Mercury beat Sparks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014\u00a0Alyssa Thomas had 12 points, 16 rebounds and 15 assists\u00a0for her WNBA single-season record seventh triple-double, and the Phoenix Mercury beat the Los Angeles Sparks 92-84 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas secured her 18th career triple-double with 2:50 left in the fourth quarter on a shot in the lane. She broke her own record of six triple-doubles in a season, set in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas, who had 13 points, 12 rebounds and 16 assists in a win on Friday, also became the first player in WNBA history to post at least 10 points, 15 rebounds and 15 assists in a game.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix (23-14) moved past New York (23-15) for sole possession of fourth place in the WNBA standings.<\/p>\n<p>Satou Sabally had a team-high 19 points and Kahleah Copper added 18 for Phoenix. Sami Whitcomb made five of her first six 3-pointers and finished with 17 points. DeWanna Bonner added 14 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Mercury went 11 of 25 from 3-point range, with nine makes coming from players off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Dearica Hamby had 25 points, eight rebounds and five steals for Los Angeles (17-19). Rickea Jackson had 21 points and four 3-pointers, and Kelsey Plum scored 20. Plum reached 700 points on the season \u2014 the third time she\u2019s done that in her career.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas had just one point at halftime after attempting two field goals, to go with 10 assists and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014\u00a0Alyssa Thomas had 12 points, 16 rebounds and 15 assists\u00a0for her WNBA single-season record seventh triple-double,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-100010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}