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Indiana Fever<\/a> (21-19, 11-8 Eastern Conference) at Phoenix Mercury<\/a> (25-14, 13-9 Western Conference)<\/p>\n Phoenix; Tuesday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Phoenix Mercury hosts the Indiana Fever after Kahleah Copper scored 22 points in the Phoenix Mercury’s 80-63 win against the New York Liberty<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Mercury have gone 14-6 at home. Phoenix ranks fifth in the WNBA<\/a> with 34.6 rebounds led by Alyssa Thomas<\/a> averaging 8.9.<\/p>\n The Fever are 10-10 on the road. Indiana ranks second in the WNBA scoring 40.1 points per game in the paint led by Aliyah Boston<\/a> averaging 10.8.<\/p>\n Phoenix averages 83.1 points per game, 0.9 more points than the 82.2 Indiana gives up. Indiana has shot at a 45.3% clip from the field this season, 2.7 percentage points higher than the 42.6% shooting opponents of Phoenix have averaged.<\/p>\n The teams meet for the third time this season. The Mercury won 95-60 in the last matchup on Aug. 8.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Satou Sabally<\/a> is averaging 16.6 points and 6.1 rebounds for the Mercury. Copper is averaging 16.3 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Boston is averaging 15.4 points, 8.3 rebounds and 3.6 assists for the Fever. Kelsey Mitchell<\/a> is averaging 21.4 points and 1.6 rebounds while shooting 42.2% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Mercury: 7-3, averaging 82.4 points, 35.4 rebounds, 21.5 assists, 7.2 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 43.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 77.4 points per game.<\/p>\n Fever: 4-6, averaging 82.3 points, 33.1 rebounds, 19.5 assists, 7.5 steals and 3.0 blocks per game while shooting 44.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 84.4 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Mercury: None listed.<\/p>\n Fever: Sydney Colson<\/a>: out for season (knee), Caitlin Clark<\/a>: out (groin), Sophie Cunningham<\/a>: out for season (knee), Aari McDonald<\/a>: out for season (foot).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n \n What did you think of this story?\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Indiana Fever (21-19, 11-8 Eastern Conference) at Phoenix Mercury (25-14, 13-9 Western Conference) Phoenix; Tuesday, 10…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-124365","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\/124365","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=124365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}