{"id":200914,"date":"2025-10-09T19:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/200914\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:55:07","slug":"mercury-rule-injured-satou-sabally-out-of-wnba-finals-game-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/200914\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Rule Injured Satou Sabally Out of WNBA Finals Game 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_0rzfq57bq\">If the Mercury want to extend the WNBA Finals past Friday, they&#8217;ll have to do it without one of their guiding lights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_ityjpomwn\">Phoenix forward Satou Sabally will miss Game 4 of the Finals against the Aces after sustaining a concussion in Game 3, the Mercury <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PhoenixMercury\/status\/1976362588255682658?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">announced Thursday afternoon<\/a>. Sabally, 27, scored 24 points and pulled down five rebounds before leaving Game 3 with an injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_9t3laghbk\">Las Vegas won Game 3 90\u201388 behind a <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/aces-aja-wilson-playoff-history-finals-game-3-vs-mercury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">34-point outing from future Hall of Fame center A&#8217;ja Wilson<\/a>, and leads the series 3\u20130.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_yp1sm4gkp\">Sabally is coming off another productive season for Phoenix. The Oregon product made her third All-Star team after averaging 16.3 points per game, and has been even more productive in the playoffs with 19 points and seven rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_z2moa2xwm\">This is the first best-of-seven playoff series in WNBA history, but in the league&#8217;s closest point of comparison\u2014the NBA\u2014no team has ever overcome a 3\u20130 deficit to win a best-of-seven series.<\/p>\n<p>More WNBA on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the Mercury want to extend the WNBA Finals past Friday, they&#8217;ll have to do it without one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-200914","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\/200914","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=200914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}