{"id":409638,"date":"2026-07-23T17:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409638\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T17:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:13:08","slug":"lufkin-native-natasha-mack-helps-phoenix-mercury-top-los-angeles-sparks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409638\/","title":{"rendered":"Lufkin native Natasha Mack helps Phoenix Mercury top Los Angeles Sparks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LOS ANGELES (KTRE) \u2014 Former Lufkin Lady Panther Natasha Mack reached double digits in points in Phoenix\u2019s 86-82 win over Los Angeles on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In their third matchup of the season, Mack helped the Phoenix Mercury (10-18) secure its first victory against the Los Angeles Sparks (10-16). This was the second win in a row for the Mercury, who are gaining momentum after losing six straight games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Against the Sparks, Mack scored 10 points in just over 15 minutes, shot 62.5% from the field and had one assist. Defensively, Mack led her team with two blocks and secured three rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Mercury\u2019s next matchup is at home against the Golden State Valkyries on Wednesday, July 29.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (KTRE) \u2014 Former Lufkin Lady Panther Natasha Mack reached double digits in points in Phoenix\u2019s 86-82&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,164166,164164,127830,164165],"class_list":["post-409638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-lufkin-texas-basketball","tag-natasha-mack","tag-phoenix-mercury","tag-wnba-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}