{"id":176678,"date":"2025-09-29T02:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/176678\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T02:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:21:09","slug":"phoenix-mercury-advance-to-wnba-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/176678\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Mercury advance to WNBA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Mercury are heading to the WNBA Finals. Phoenix topped the Minnesota Lynx 86-81 on Sunday night to win the best-of-five series 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>The Mercury used a massive fourth quarter to win the game. In fact, the Linx led 68-55 after three. Phoenix scored 31 points in the final quarter to win the game and head to the finals.<\/p>\n<p>Alyssa Thomas was the top scorer in the game with 23 points. She also added eight rebounds and dished out 10 assists.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/wnba\/minnesota-lynx\/news\/minnesota-lynx-season-brink-without-head-and-star-forward\/ddf06a5200f30131361f75e9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Minnesota Lynx season on the brink without head coach and star forward<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Minnesota, Kayla McBride was the top scorer with 31 points. McBride had four rebounds and two assists as well.<\/p>\n<p>With the loss of the Lynx, the WNBA will have a new champion. For Phoenix, it&#8217;s their first trip to the WNBA Finals since 2021. That season, they lost to the Chicago Sky.<\/p>\n<p>The Mercury have not won the WNBA Finals since the 2014 season when they swept Chicago behind Diana Taurasi&#8217;s big series. Phoenix has been in the postseason every season since 2013 except for 2023, when they won just nine games.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix will now await the winner of Game 5 between the Las Vegas Aces and Indiana Fever. Game five is back in Vegas on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MORE WNBA News:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phoenix Mercury are heading to the WNBA Finals. Phoenix topped the Minnesota Lynx 86-81 on Sunday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-176678","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\/176678","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=176678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}