{"id":112914,"date":"2025-08-27T04:20:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/112914\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T04:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:20:06","slug":"what-happened-to-rickea-jackson-vs-mercury-la-sparks-star-in-visible-pain-as-teammates-rush-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/112914\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to Rickea Jackson vs Mercury? LA Sparks Star in Visible Pain as Teammates Rush to Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-athlete=\"false\" class=\"dom-traversal_domPTag__RMrin\">The game between the Los Angeles Sparks (17-18) and the Phoenix Mercury (22-14) was already heating up in the fourth quarter, with the Mercury leading 76-60, when another concerning update shook Sparks fans. WNBA insider Underdog WNBA reported on X, \u201cRickea Jackson (ankle) headed to locker room Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dom-traversal_domPTag__RMrin\">The incident happened when Rickea\u2019s left ankle appeared to make contact with Satou Sabally, and she was clearly in pain right after. For a moment, it looked serious, leaving Sparks fans worried about the rookie forward\u2019s condition. Luckily, Rickea managed to walk off the court on her own without any assistance, which was a positive sign. While the Sparks were still battling to close the gap on the scoreboard, her injury added another layer of concern to an already tense matchup.<\/p>\n<p data-article=\"true\">ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p data-article=\"true\">ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Status alert: Rickea Jackson (ankle) headed to locker room Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Underdog WNBA (@UnderdogWNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UnderdogWNBA\/status\/1960545903275860356?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-article=\"true\">ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p data-athlete=\"false\" class=\"dom-traversal_domPTag__RMrin\">(This is a developing story\u2026)<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The game between the Los Angeles Sparks (17-18) and the Phoenix Mercury (22-14) was already heating up in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-112914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}