{"id":68055,"date":"2025-08-08T17:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/68055\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T17:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:06:15","slug":"mercury-crush-indiana-fever-extend-win-streak-to-3-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/68055\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury crush Indiana Fever, extend win streak to 3 games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 Alyssa Thomas had 18 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists to become the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WNBA\/status\/1953670069180895426\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">first WNBA player with three straight triple-doubles<\/a>, and the Phoenix Mercury beat the Indiana Fever 95-60 on Thursday night for their third consecutive victory.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas secured her 19th career triple-double with 3:47 left on a pass to the corner for DeWanna Bonner\u2019s 3-pointer. Thomas has 41 points, 33 rebounds and 32 assists in her last three games.<\/p>\n<p>Bonner finished with a season-high 23 points. Satou Sabally had 15 points and eight rebounds, and Kahleah Copper scored 11 for Phoenix (19-11).<\/p>\n<p>Sophie Cunningham scored 18 points and shot 5 of 8 on 3-pointers for Indiana (17-14).<\/p>\n<p>It was her first game back in Phoenix after playing for the Mercury for the first six seasons of her career.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey Mitchell added 12 points. Caitlin Clark (right groin) missed her ninth straight game.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix had its lead trimmed to 53-44 early in the third quarter after Cunningham made a 3-pointer on back-to-back possessions. But the Mercury answered with a 14-0 run, capped by a 3-pointer from Sami Whitcomb, for a 23-point lead with 2:39 left in the third.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana went four-plus minutes without scoring in the third and finished the quarter with just 11 points.<\/p>\n<p>The season series is tied 1-all, with the final regular-season meeting on Sept. 2 in Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/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\/08\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 Alyssa Thomas had 18 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists to become the first WNBA player&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[4404,2976,4403,99,434],"class_list":["post-68055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-arizona-sports-now-on-98-7-fm","tag-home","tag-phoenix-arizona-sports-news-phoenix-breaking-sports-news","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68055","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=68055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}