{"id":286146,"date":"2025-11-16T05:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T05:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/286146\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T05:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T05:21:15","slug":"mercury-well-represented-during-2007-wnba-all-star-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/286146\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Well-Represented During 2007 WNBA All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/mercury\/phoenix-why-may-have-a-big-offseason\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Phoenix Mercury<\/a> were on a mission in 2007. They reached the playoffs for the first time since 2000, and they not only went on a deep playoff run, they won it all. The Mercury won the franchise&#8217;s first championship, and they did it by stopping the Detroit Shock. <\/p>\n<p>Detroit won a championship the previous year, and Phoenix put an end to any hopes of a repeat. <\/p>\n<p>Before getting to that point, the Mercury were playing well during the season, and they had a chance to rest during that year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/mercury\/phoenix-guards-linked-2009-all-star\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All-Star events.<\/a> However, some of the team&#8217;s best players were involved in those events, and they had a chance to unwind and have some fun. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phoenix Mercury were on a mission in 2007. They reached the playoffs for the first time since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-286146","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\/286146","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=286146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}