{"id":1020596,"date":"2026-08-24T08:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T08:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1020596\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T08:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T08:23:13","slug":"phoenix-hosts-washington-following-austins-31-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1020596\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix hosts Washington following Austin’s 31-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Mystics<\/a> (22-15, 11-5 Eastern Conference) at Phoenix Mercury<\/a> (13-24, 8-11 Western Conference)<\/p>\n

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

BOTTOM LINE: Washington Mystics visits the Phoenix Mercury after Shakira Austin<\/a> scored 31 points in the Mystics’ 105-100 win against the Portland Fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Mercury have gone 5-12 in home games. Phoenix is seventh in the Western Conference with 36.2 points per game in the paint led by Alyssa Thomas<\/a> averaging 10.5.<\/p>\n

The Mystics are 9-8 on the road. Washington is the leader in the Eastern Conference allowing only 83.1 points per game while holding opponents to 42.8% shooting.<\/p>\n

Phoenix scores 84.0 points per game, 0.9 more points than the 83.1 Washington allows. Washington averages 5.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 4.0 fewer made shots on average than the 9.9 per game Phoenix allows.<\/p>\n

The two teams match up for the second time this season. The Mystics defeated the Mercury 95-75 in their last matchup on Aug. 9. Sonia Citron<\/a> led the Mystics with 19 points, and Kahleah Copper<\/a> led the Mercury with 15 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: DeWanna Bonner<\/a> is averaging 10.6 points and 6.1 rebounds for the Mercury. Copper is averaging 22.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Austin is scoring 17.0 points per game and averaging 9.5 rebounds for the Mystics. Citron is averaging 1.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Mercury: 4-6, averaging 87.2 points, 32.3 rebounds, 21.9 assists, 6.6 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 45.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 90.6 points per game.<\/p>\n

Mystics: 7-3, averaging 86.5 points, 39.8 rebounds, 19.9 assists, 5.7 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 46.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 83.1 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Mercury: Marta Suarez: day to day (head), Kelsey Plum<\/a>: day to day (calf).<\/p>\n

Mystics: None listed.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Mystics (22-15, 11-5 Eastern Conference) at Phoenix Mercury (13-24, 8-11 Western Conference) Phoenix; Tuesday, 10 p.m. EDT…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":999469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[4552,5229,5643,1587,2340,255655,20022,5610,1589,1502,12795,34428,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,1514,12860],"class_list":["post-1020596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-alyssa-thomas","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-dewanna-bonner","tag-event_preview","tag-kahleah-copper","tag-kelsey-plum","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-mercury","tag-shakira-austin","tag-sonia-citron","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-washington-mystics","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117149526134339782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/999469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}