{"id":692050,"date":"2026-05-25T05:49:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/692050\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T05:49:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:49:31","slug":"reese-canada-double-doubles-fuel-dream-to-win-over-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/692050\/","title":{"rendered":"Reese, Canada double-doubles fuel Dream to win over Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA \u2014 Rhyne Howard scored 21 points, Allisha Gray added 17 and Angel Reese recorded her third double-double of the season as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/atlanta-dream\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"atlanta-dream\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Atlanta Dream<\/a> used a late surge to beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/phoenix-mercury\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"phoenix-mercury\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phoenix Mercury<\/a> 82-80 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Reese finished with 17 points and 10 rebounds. Jordin Canada had 11 points and 14 rebounds for her first double-double of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Dream (4-1) used a 9-0 run in a span of 85 seconds to tie the game at 73 with just over a minute remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Canada was fouled on a drive to the basket and converted a free throw to give Atlanta the lead. Howard hit a 3-pointer to make it a four-point game with 24 seconds remaining. The Mercury&#8217;s Kahleah Copper hit a 3-pointer on the next possession, cutting their deficit to a point.<\/p>\n<p>Reese was fouled and made one of the two shots, and the Dream recovered the rebound. Gray was fouled and made both free throws to give Atlanta an 82-78 edge, Copper was fouled on a 3-point attempt and made two of three shots with 3.5 seconds remaining for the final two-point margin.<\/p>\n<p>Copper and Alyssa Thomas each scored 20 for the Mercury (2-5). Jovana Nogic added 11, and Thomas grabbed 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Kyara Linskins scored 10 points off the bench for the Mercury.<\/p>\n<p>Mercury: At the New York Liberty on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Dream: At the Minnesota Lynx on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014 Rhyne Howard scored 21 points, Allisha Gray added 17 and Angel Reese recorded her third double-double&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-692050","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\/692050","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=692050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}