PHOENIX \u2014 Alyssa Thomas had 18 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists to become the first WNBA player with three straight triple-doubles, and the Phoenix Mercury beat the Indiana Fever 95-60 on Thursday night for their third consecutive victory.<\/p>\n
Thomas secured her 19th career triple-double with 3:47 left on a pass to the corner for DeWanna Bonner’s three-pointer. Thomas has 41 points, 33 rebounds and 32 assists in her last three games.<\/p>\n
Bonner finished with a season-high 23 points. Satou Sabally had 15 points and eight rebounds, and Kahleah Copper scored 11 for Phoenix (19-11).<\/p>\n
Sophie Cunningham scored 18 points and shot 5-of-8 on three-pointers for Indiana (17-14). Kelsey Mitchell added 12 points. Caitlin Clark (right groin) missed her ninth straight game.<\/p>\n
Phoenix had its lead trimmed to 53-44 early in the third quarter after Cunningham made a three-pointer on back-to-back possessions. But the Mercury answered with a 14-0 run, capped by a three-pointer from Sami Whitcomb, for a 23-point lead with 2:39 left in the third.<\/p>\n
Indiana went four-plus minutes without scoring in the third and finished the quarter with just 11 points.<\/p>\n
The season series is tied 1-all, with the final regular-season meeting on Sept. 2 in Phoenix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 Alyssa Thomas had 18 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists to become the first WNBA player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-54078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54078","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=54078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}