{"id":736614,"date":"2026-07-01T09:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/736614\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:21:16","slug":"phoenix-mercury-guard-jovana-nogic-to-miss-rest-of-season-due-to-personal-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/736614\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Mercury guard Jovana Nogic to miss rest of season due to personal reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Phoenix Mercury rookie guard Jovana Nogic will miss the remainder of the season due to personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nogic is the Mercury\u2019s third-leading scorer at 10.4 points per game and was shooting 42% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThis was not an easy decision, I love Phoenix, our organization and our fans,\u201d Nogic said in a statement on Monday. \u201cThe Mercury community made me feel welcome from day one, and I look forward to returning to Phoenix next season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From the moment you arrived, you made your presence felt. Your energy, joy, and fearless style of play quickly made you an X-Factor favorite! Always Mercury \ud83d\udc9c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/umQAoHjKqe\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/umQAoHjKqe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Phoenix Mercury (@PhoenixMercury) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PhoenixMercury\/status\/2071743773529481389?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nogic played overseas after four years at Providence and signed with the Mercury as an undrafted free agent before this season. She had not played since June 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe well-being of our players is our top priority,\u201d Mercury general manager Nick U\u2019Ren said. \u201cWe appreciate the hard work, commitment and joy she brought to Phoenix this season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 7-13 Mercury also will be without center Natasha Mack for at least two weeks due to a bone bruise in her left foot.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Phoenix Mercury rookie guard Jovana Nogic will miss the remainder of the season due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[316901,316900,316904,316902,316903,99,434,316905,4679],"class_list":["post-736614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-azfamily-sports","tag-jovana-nogic-phoenix-mercury-season","tag-phoenix-mercury-guard-missing-season","tag-phoenix-mercury-news","tag-phoenix-mercury-roster-update","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-injury-report","tag-wnba-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736614","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=736614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}