Jeff Metcalfe Turns out the Las Vegas Aces didn’t peak in the regular season after all. The Aces won 16 straight games in August and September to climb from mediocrity…
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Let’s be honest. With the Phoenix Mercury trailing by 17 points going into the fourth quarter of WNBA Finals Game 3 on Wednesday, few of the season-high 17,071 at Mortgage…
LAS VEGAS – Becky Hammon held her thumb and forefinger almost together Sunday before WNBA Finals Game 2, saying that’s how close Game 1 was to being a “different conversation”…
LAS VEGAS – To keep the Phoenix Mercury’s WNBA Finals Game 1 loss in perspective, remember that Mercury also trailed 1-0 in the playoffs first round and semifinals, both shorter…
When Monique Akoa Makani came to the U.S. for the first time in late April, taking a risk on the WNBA even though unsure if she was prepared, she didn’t…
Video by Eliav Gabay When the Phoenix Mercury needed her the most Sunday, DeWanna Bonner found a way to deliver and for the third time in her career to help…
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Women’s basketpalooza: Mercury grab WNBA semifinal series lead, ASU celebrates 50th anniversary on same day
On the same day that Arizona State celebrated a half century of varsity women’s basketball, the Phoenix Mercury battled to a second consecutive win over the Minnesota Lynx for the…
The Phoenix Mercury were better than the New York Liberty this season, winning 5-of-7 games including 2-of-3 in the WNBA playoffs first round thanks in part to a home-court tiebreaker…
Satou Sabally perhaps landed on the salient point immediately after the Phoenix Mercury’s dominance over the New York Liberty on Wednesday. “I would say Game 1 was different. This was…
In an overtime loss Sunday that they could have won in regulation, the Phoenix Mercury proved their regular-season edge over the WNBA defending champion New York Liberty was not a…