{"id":599472,"date":"2026-04-22T11:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/599472\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:32:18","slug":"phoenix-mercury-players-are-excited-to-see-where-nate-tibbetts-grew-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/599472\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Mercury players are excited to see where Nate Tibbetts grew up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PHOENIX, AZ (Dakota News Now) -The WNBA will be in South Dakota for the first time ever on Saturday when Nate Tibbetts returns home with his Phoenix Mercury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">I know Nate is really excited about coming home&#8230; He was born in Jefferson and went to HS in Sioux Falls at Roosevelt before starring for USD in college.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">And he\u2019s now the head coach of the Phoenix franchise in the WNBA. His players are pretty fired up about seeing where coach is from too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Kiana Williams says, \u201cYeah it\u2019s awesome. I\u2019ve never been to South Dakota and probably never would have gone if it weren\u2019t for the game on Saturday. Nate\u2019s all excited and I know it\u2019s going to be a great crowd. Wednesday we have our pre-season opener against a Japanese team so I\u2019m excited about that. So yeah, it\u2019s go time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">DeWanna Bonner says, \u201cWe\u2019re going to Nate\u2019s hometown so that\u2019s pretty cool. Everyone\u2019s like, have you been there before and everybody said no so it\u2019s like new beginnings, something new that we\u2019ve never seen before because I\u2019ve never been to South Dakota before. Year 16 and I\u2019ve never been to South Dakota, how crazy is that?\u201d (laughs)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Mercury will take on the Chicago Sky at 3 o\u2019clock Saturday at the Pentagon. You can watch the game on FOX.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Dakota News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX, AZ (Dakota News Now) -The WNBA will be in South Dakota for the first time ever on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[11649,111807,5551,260979,99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-599472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-dewanna-bonner","9":"tag-kiana-williams","10":"tag-phoenix-mercury","11":"tag-sanford-pentagon","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599472","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=599472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}