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Phoenix Mercury<\/a> (16-11, 9-7 Western Conference) at Chicago Sky<\/a> (7-20, 1-11 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n Chicago; Sunday, 6 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Chicago Sky takes on Phoenix Mercury looking to break its five-game home losing streak.<\/p>\n The Sky are 4-9 in home games. Chicago allows 87.1 points to opponents and has been outscored by 10.4 points per game.<\/p>\n The Mercury are 7-7 on the road. Phoenix is third in the Western Conference with 20.7 assists per game led by Alyssa Thomas<\/a> averaging 9.0.<\/p>\n Chicago’s average of 7.0 made 3-pointers per game is 1.4 fewer made shots on average than the 8.4 per game Phoenix allows. Phoenix has shot at a 43.3% clip from the field this season, 1.6 percentage points fewer than the 44.9% shooting opponents of Chicago have averaged.<\/p>\n The two teams match up for the third time this season. The Mercury defeated the Sky 107-86 in their last meeting on June 21. Sami Whitcomb<\/a> led the Mercury with 17 points, and Kamilla Cardoso<\/a> led the Sky with 17 points.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Angel Reese<\/a> is averaging 14.2 points, 12.6 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.5 steals for the Sky. Rachel Banham<\/a> is averaging 13.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Thomas is averaging 16.2 points, 8.4 rebounds and nine assists for the Mercury. Kahleah Copper<\/a> is averaging 10.4 points and 1.5 rebounds while shooting 48.6% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Sky: 2-8, averaging 73.5 points, 36.3 rebounds, 17.1 assists, 5.3 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 41.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 87.0 points per game.<\/p>\n Mercury: 4-6, averaging 83.0 points, 33.4 rebounds, 20.7 assists, 7.2 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 43.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 85.0 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Sky: Ariel Atkins<\/a>: out (leg), Courtney Vandersloot<\/a>: out for season (acl).<\/p>\n Mercury: 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":"Associated Press Phoenix Mercury (16-11, 9-7 Western Conference) at Chicago Sky (7-20, 1-11 Eastern Conference) Chicago; Sunday, 6…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-112608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114958463544486036","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112608","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=112608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}