{"id":541701,"date":"2026-03-24T04:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/541701\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T04:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:57:16","slug":"phoenix-mercury-announce-2026-preseason-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/541701\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Mercury announce 2026 preseason schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Mercury will be a part of the WNBA\u2019s first game to be held in the state of South Dakota as part of the team\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/mercury.wnba.com\/news\/phoenix-mercury-announces-2026-preseason-schedule-including-the-first-ever-wnba-game-in-south-dakota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2026 preseason schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On April 25, the Mercury will travel to Sioux Falls, South Dakota to play the Chicago Sky. The contest will be held in the Sanford Pentagon, home of the NBA G League\u2019s Sioux Falls Skyforce, whom head coach Nate Tibbetts was the head coach of from 2007-09.<\/p>\n<p>Tibbetts is a native of the city, played four seasons for the South Dakota men\u2019s basketball team and started out his coaching career as an assistant for the University of Sioux Falls.<\/p>\n<p>Four days later, the team wraps up its preseason by returning home to Mortgage Matchup Center for a contest against the Japan Women\u2019s Basketball National Team. This will be the third time the Mercury faces Japan in an exhibition game and the first since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The April 25 game in Sioux Falls will start at 1 p.m. MST while the April 29 game will tipoff at 7 p.m. MST. Both contests can be viewed on Arizona\u2019s Family 3TV, but only on April 29 will the game also be available on Arizona\u2019s Family Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the April 29 game are available now on the team\u2019s official website while tickets for the April 25 game will go on sale on Ticketmaster at 8 a.m. MST on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phoenix Mercury will be a part of the WNBA\u2019s first game to be held in the state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-541701","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\/541701","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=541701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}