{"id":660107,"date":"2026-05-23T08:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/660107\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T08:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:25:10","slug":"what-have-the-phoenix-mercury-learned-about-themselves-through-six-games-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/660107\/","title":{"rendered":"What have the Phoenix Mercury learned about themselves through six games so far?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 Six games don\u2019t define a season, but they surely expose a team\u2019s concerns \u2014 and the Phoenix Mercury already know what needs to be addressed urgently.<\/p>\n<p>But should fans hit the panic button now or let the next stretch play out and see if there\u2019s cause for worry?<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0a82983d9abc057e7050fe0dccfb549e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>May 21, 2026; Phoenix, Arizona, USA; Los Angeles Sparks forward <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/wnba\/players\/10156\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cameron Brink;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Cameron Brink&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Brink<\/a> (22) scores and gets fouled against the Phoenix Mercury in the first half at Mortgage Matchup Center. Mandatory Credit: Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"386\" height=\"386\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8ce9a6553516124f8e95bfab406215a2.jpeg\"\/>*Get the BEST Phoenix sports insider information, and exclusive content. SIGN UP HERE to unlock our premium content!*Wendy Lopez is a reporter for Burn City Sports. You can follow her on her X account, @wlopezde<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 Six games don\u2019t define a season, but they surely expose a team\u2019s concerns \u2014 and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[1017,5041,16802,3029,146321,159827,18740,5551,10505,231191,99,24,434],"class_list":["post-660107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-arizona","tag-cameron-brink","tag-kahleah-copper","tag-los-angeles-sparks","tag-mandatory-credit","tag-mortgage-matchup-center","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-mercury","tag-rae-burrell","tag-rick-scuteri-imagn","tag-sports","tag-usa","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660107","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=660107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}