{"id":116149,"date":"2025-09-03T07:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/116149\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T07:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:12:13","slug":"thomas-scores-23-points-as-mercury-beat-fever-for-fifth-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/116149\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas scores 23 points as Mercury beat Fever for fifth straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 Alyssa Thomas had 23 points, nine rebounds and nine assists, DeWanna Bonner added 19 points off the bench and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/phoenix-mercury\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"phoenix-mercury\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Phoenix Mercury<\/a> won their fifth straight game with an 85-79 victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/indiana-fever\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"indiana-fever\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Indiana Fever<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix (26-14), which had already clinched a playoff spot, moved into a second-place tie with Las Vegas (26-14) and Atlanta (26-14). The Mercury close the regular season against Washington, Connecticut, Los Angeles and Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey Mitchell had 29 points and five 3-pointers for Indiana (21-20). Lexie Hull added 18 points and Aliyah Boston had 11 points, eight rebounds and seven assists. Caitlin Clark missed her 19th straight game due to a right groin injury.<\/p>\n<p>Satou Sabally added 13 points, Kahleah Copper scored 11 and Sami Whitcomb had 10 points and seven assists for Phoenix. Natasha Mack grabbed 10 rebounds. Bonner was 6 of 11 from the field against the team she played nine games for earlier this season.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix led 54-39 at halftime after closing on a 10-0 run, capped by Monique Akoa Makani&#8217;s 3-pointer with 2.2. seconds left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 Alyssa Thomas had 23 points, nine rebounds and nine assists, DeWanna Bonner added 19 points off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-116149","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\/116149","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=116149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}