{"id":100849,"date":"2025-08-27T13:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/100849\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:10:16","slug":"thomas-sets-wnba-single-season-record-with-7-triple-doubles-as-the-mercury-beat-the-sparks-92-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/100849\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas sets WNBA single-season record with 7 triple-doubles as the Mercury beat the Sparks 92-84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WNBA\/status\/1960553602063147072\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Alyssa Thomas had 12 points, 16 rebounds and 15 assists;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Alyssa Thomas had 12 points, 16 rebounds and 15 assists<\/a> for 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>Advertisement<\/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<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP WNBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Alyssa Thomas had 12 points, 16 rebounds and 15 assists for her WNBA single-season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[4652,49,48,24659,12202,631,1522,632,3461,12933,16295,4659,82,24594,630,32563],"class_list":["post-100849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-alyssa-thomas","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dearica-hamby","tag-kahleah-copper","tag-kelsey-plum","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-sparks","tag-phoenix-mercury","tag-rickea-jackson","tag-sami-whitcomb","tag-satou-sabally","tag-sports","tag-triple-double","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-standings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100849","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=100849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}