{"id":687073,"date":"2026-06-06T01:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T01:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/687073\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T01:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T01:39:08","slug":"wnba-injury-news-alyssa-thomas-kahleah-copper-updates-6-5-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/687073\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Injury News: Alyssa Thomas, Kahleah Copper Updates 6\/5\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading151976_e554f3-7c\">Charlie Cummings breaks down the latest injury news regarding Phoenix Mercury players Alyssa Thomas and Kahleah Copper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Things were already looking rough for the Phoenix Mercury heading into tonight\u2019s game. At 3-8, they\u2019re spiraling after being in the WNBA Finals last season. Things just got worse on Friday night with the injury news concerning Alyssa Thomas and Kahleah Copper.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kahleah Copper and Alyssa Thomas are both OUT tonight for the Mercury, Nate Tibbetts said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Clarke (@RyanTClarke) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RyanTClarke\/status\/2063051703017214361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Already underdogs on the road, the Mercury will try to right the ship without their top two scorers and best defender. Certainly won\u2019t be easy for a team already struggling on both ends of the floor. Monique Akoa Makani figures to get more touches tonight, along with Jovana Nogi\u0107.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stay tuned to the DraftKings Network for updates on Thomas and Copper\u2019s injury status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Cummings breaks down the latest injury news regarding Phoenix Mercury players Alyssa Thomas and Kahleah Copper. Things&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-687073","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\/687073","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=687073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}