{"id":54504,"date":"2025-08-08T12:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54504\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T12:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:46:06","slug":"mercurys-alyssa-thomas-makes-wnba-history-after-recording-3rd-straight-triple-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54504\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury’s Alyssa Thomas makes WNBA history after recording 3rd straight triple-double"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alyssa Thomas of the Phoenix Mercury made WNBA history on Thursday night by becoming the first<\/a> player in league history to record three consecutive triple-doubles.<\/p>\n

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The nine-year veteran had 18 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists during the Mercury’s 95-60 win<\/a> over the Indiana Fever \u2014 Phoenix’s third straight win. Thomas set the record late in the fourth quarter with an assist on DeWanna Bonner’s 3-pointer.<\/p>\n

The triple-double was the 19th of Thomas’ career. She’s been so dominant in that specific statistic that the next closest in WNBA history are the four achieved by Sabrina Ionescu.<\/p>\n

“Just a huge honor,” Thomas said afterward. “A lot of credit to my teammates. They helped me get this one tonight. But to be first ever, not a lot of people can say that about anything.”<\/p>\n

Thomas, who is in her first season with the Mercury<\/a> after spending the first eight years of her WNBA career with the Connecticut Sun, has achieved at least a double-double in the her last seven games.<\/p>\n

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The 33-year-old Maryland alum is averaging 15.9 points, 8.7 rebounds and 9.2 assists through 25 games this season. The Mercury are tied for third place through 30 games with a 19-11 record<\/a> and remain six games behind the league-leading Minnesota Lynx. They’ve already matched their win total of last season.<\/p>\n

“Just leaning into each other,” Thomas said of what’s changed this season within the team. “We’ve had a lot of adversity this season, injuries and things of that nature. I think we’re just starting to hit our second wind.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alyssa Thomas of the Phoenix Mercury made WNBA history on Thursday night by becoming the first player in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[4652,49,48,3458,16298,2803,736,3461,4644,82,25836,36518,630,36517,36516,16002],"class_list":["post-54504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-alyssa-thomas","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-connecticut-sun","tag-dewanna-bonner","tag-indiana-fever","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-phoenix-mercury","tag-sabrina-ionescu","tag-sports","tag-the-mercury","tag-triple-doubles","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-career","tag-wnba-history","tag-yahoo-fantasy-football-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54504","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=54504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}