{"id":187423,"date":"2026-08-29T06:43:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T06:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/187423\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T06:43:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T06:43:29","slug":"toronto-visits-phoenix-after-coppers-35-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/187423\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto visits Phoenix after Copper’s 35-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto Tempo<\/a> (11-28, 5-11 Eastern Conference) at Phoenix Mercury<\/a> (13-26, 8-11 Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Phoenix; Saturday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Phoenix Mercury hosts the Toronto Tempo after Kahleah Copper<\/a> scored 35 points in the Phoenix Mercury’s 80-73 loss to the Washington Mystics.<\/p>\n

The Mercury are 5-14 on their home court. Phoenix allows 87.7 points to opponents and has been outscored by 4.0 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Tempo have gone 4-15 away from home. Toronto gives up 93.6 points to opponents while being outscored by 6.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Phoenix scores 83.7 points per game, 9.9 fewer points than the 93.6 Toronto allows. Toronto averages 9.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, the same that Phoenix allows.<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the third time this season. In the last matchup on June 27 the Mercury won 89-80 led by 27 points from Copper, while Nyara Sabally<\/a> scored 14 points for the Tempo.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Alyssa Thomas<\/a> is averaging 14.5 points, 7.7 rebounds and 8.3 assists for the Mercury. Copper is averaging 23.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Laura Juskaite<\/a> is scoring 10.3 points per game and averaging 4.3 rebounds for the Tempo. Kia Nurse<\/a> is averaging 1.9 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Mercury: 2-8, averaging 85.2 points, 31.1 rebounds, 21.2 assists, 7.2 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 45.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 90.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Tempo: 1-9, averaging 83.5 points, 33.5 rebounds, 19.4 assists, 6.3 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 42.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 93.4 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Mercury: Kelsey Plum<\/a>: day to day (leg), Valeriane Ayayi: out (not injury related), Marta Suarez: day to day (concussion protocol).<\/p>\n

Tempo: Aneesah Morrow: out for season (knee), Brittney Sykes: out for season (foot), Marina Mabrey<\/a>: out (adductor), Nyara Sabally: out (calf).<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Tempo (11-28, 5-11 Eastern Conference) at Phoenix Mercury (13-26, 8-11 Western Conference) Phoenix; Saturday, 10 p.m. EDT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59192,2708,59191,19966,16399,28728,2693,23802,23798,48,2318,14503],"class_list":["post-187423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-alyssa-thomas","tag-event_preview","tag-kahleah-copper","tag-kelsey-plum","tag-kia-nurse","tag-laura-juskaite","tag-marina-mabrey","tag-nyara-sabally","tag-phoenix-mercury","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-tempo","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}