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Phoenix Mercury<\/a> (20-13, 10-8 Western Conference) at Golden State Valkyries<\/a> (18-16, 7-10 Western Conference)<\/p>\n San Francisco; Tuesday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Veronica Burton<\/a> and the Golden State Valkyries host Alyssa Thomas<\/a> and the Phoenix Mercury.<\/p>\n The Valkyries have gone 7-10 against Western Conference opponents. Golden State has an 8-13 record against teams above .500.<\/p>\n The Mercury are 10-8 against Western Conference teams. Phoenix has a 9-6 record in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n Golden State scores 77.8 points per game, 2.0 fewer points than the 79.8 Phoenix allows. Phoenix averages 9.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.3 more makes per game than Golden State allows.<\/p>\n The teams meet for the third time this season. The Mercury won 78-77 in the last matchup on July 15.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Tiffany Hayes<\/a> is averaging 11.9 points for the Valkyries. Burton is averaging 12.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Thomas is averaging 16.2 points, 8.6 rebounds, 9.1 assists and 1.7 steals for the Mercury. Kahleah Copper<\/a> is averaging 1.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Valkyries: 7-3, averaging 75.4 points, 33.1 rebounds, 18.0 assists, 6.1 steals and 2.0 blocks per game while shooting 41.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 72.4 points per game.<\/p>\n Mercury: 5-5, averaging 83.1 points, 35.0 rebounds, 20.3 assists, 7.3 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 44.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 79.8 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Valkyries: Kayla Thornton<\/a>: out for season (knee), Monique Billings<\/a>: out (ankle).<\/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 \n What did you think of this story?\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Phoenix Mercury (20-13, 10-8 Western Conference) at Golden State Valkyries (18-16, 7-10 Western Conference) San Francisco;…\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-155164","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\/115048612238675150","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155164","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=155164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155164\/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=155164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}