{"id":441341,"date":"2026-09-19T20:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T20:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441341\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T20:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T20:16:09","slug":"bueckers-scores-20-of-her-26-in-1st-half-and-the-wings-beat-the-mercury-87-82-for-6th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441341\/","title":{"rendered":"Bueckers scores 20 of her 26 in 1st half and the Wings beat the Mercury 87-82 for 6th straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Paige Bueckers scored 20 of her 26 points in the first half, Arike Ogunbowale had 22 points and six assists, and the Dallas Wings beat the Phoenix Mercury 87-82 on Saturday for their sixth straight victory.<\/p>\n<p>Aziaha James made a key steal down the stretch and Bueckers was fouled with 9.7 seconds left before making 1 of 2 free throws to cap the scoring.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas (26-16) passed New York and Washington for sixth place in the WNBA standings.<\/p>\n<p>Awak Kuier added 11 points for Dallas and Jessica Shepard had 10 points, six rebounds and five assists. Bueckers reached the 20-point mark for the 24th time \u2014 the fourth-most in the WNBA this season.<\/p>\n<p>Alyssa Thomas recorded her 23th career triple-double \u2014 and fourth of the season \u2014 with 19 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists for Phoenix (15-27). Lexi Held scored 21 points and made four 3-pointers, and Natasha Mack added 16 points.<\/p>\n<p>The teams play each other again on Monday in Phoenix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Paige Bueckers scored 20 of her 26 points in the first half, Arike Ogunbowale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[107480,14447,150,152,151,99807,93656,119049,119047,152760,23681,202,14446,196,42094,49691,942],"class_list":["post-441341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-alyssa-thomas","tag-arike-ogunbowale","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-awak-kuier","tag-jessica-shepard","tag-lexi-held","tag-mercury-wings-score","tag-natasha-mack","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40774-ap-arizona-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}