{"id":709194,"date":"2026-06-17T08:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/709194\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T08:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:46:11","slug":"phoenix-mercury-lose-heartbreaker-despite-kahleah-coppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/709194\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Mercury Lose HEARTBREAKER Despite Kahleah Copper\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kahleah Copper delivered a career night, but the Phoenix Mercury<\/a> still could not close the deal. <\/p>\n

Copper dropped 41 points and 10 rebounds as she and Kelsey Plum became the first opposing players in WNBA history to each score 40+ in the same game. But after a wild fourth quarter, the Los Angeles Sparks dominated overtime and handed Phoenix another brutal loss. <\/p>\n

PHNX Mercury crew break down Kah\u2019s historic performance, the late-game execution, Kelsey Plum\u2019s takeover, Alyssa Thomas\u2019 playmaking, Natasha Mack\u2019s impact and what this loss says about the Mercury as they get ready for the Las Vegas Aces. <\/p>\n

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Welcome to PHNX Mercury, where we make it more fun to be a Mercury fan!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

TIMESTAMPS<\/p>\n


0:00<\/a> \u2013 Welcome back to the PHNX Mercury Podcast <\/p>\n

3:30<\/a> \u2013 Catching up on the Sparks L <\/p>\n

11:00<\/a> \u2013 Rae Burrell <\/p>\n

13:00<\/a> \u2013 Kelsey Plum \/ Mercury foul issues (Lexi Held) <\/p>\n

18:00<\/a> \u2013 Natasha Mack\u2019s game <\/p>\n

24:00<\/a> \u2013 Should winning matter for M.I.P? <\/p>\n

29:00<\/a> \u2013 Mercury Store playing in Erika\u2019s face <\/p>\n

31:00<\/a> \u2013 Superchat \/ paying bills <\/p>\n

37:00<\/a> \u2013 What was the turning point in the loss to Sparks? <\/p>\n

43:00<\/a> \u2013 Sound from Alyssa Thomas at practice <\/p>\n

55:00<\/a> \u2013 Valu Ayayi\u2019s role with the Mercury <\/p>\n

1:00:00<\/a> \u2013 Las Vegas Aces preview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kahleah Copper delivered a career night, but the Phoenix Mercury still could not close the deal. Copper dropped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-709194","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\/709194","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=709194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}