{"id":151781,"date":"2025-09-18T03:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T03:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/151781\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T03:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T03:06:14","slug":"mercury-makes-unique-wnba-playoff-history-with-26-point-win-over-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/151781\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Makes Unique WNBA Playoff History With 26-Point Win Over Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_3k9fejvu2\">The Phoenix Mercury were on the brink of elimination from the WNBA playoffs when entering Game 2 of the first round vs. the New York Liberty on Wednesday night. But, the Mercury definitely came and conquered the Liberty in their home arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_2zfad3kdq\">The Mercury captured Game 2 with an 86-60 victory over the Liberty. Phoenix&#8217;s 26-point gap marks the <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ESPNInsights\/status\/1968499483584365045\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">largest road win in WNBA playoff history<\/a> when facing elimination, ESPN Insights reported. It&#8217;s not surprising this huge win would be a historic one, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_eaw4prkog\">The first quarter remained close, but then Phoenix took as big of a 19-point lead in the second quarter. The Mercury&#8217;s biggest lead of the night was a whopping 31 points in the second half. Quite a few of the Mercury&#8217;s bench players saw a lot of action in the second half, which allowed the team&#8217;s starters to get some well-deserved rest ahead of Game 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_eu6i8vr6a\">Mercury&#8217;s Alyssa Thomas definitely shined in Game 2, scoring 15 points and notching six rebounds and seven assists on top of that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_rxhe3nlhc\">The next matchup will be a win-or-go-home situation for both the Mercury and the Liberty. New York won Game 1 76-69. Game 3 will take place on Friday in Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>More WNBA on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phoenix Mercury were on the brink of elimination from the WNBA playoffs when entering Game 2 of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-151781","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\/151781","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=151781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}