Indiana Fever (21-19, 11-8 Eastern Conference) at Phoenix Mercury (25-14, 13-9 Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Phoenix; Tuesday, 9 p.m. CDT on WNBA League Pass<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Phoenix Mercury hosts the Indiana Fever after Kahleah Copper scored 22 points in the Phoenix Mercury\u2019s 80-63 win against the New York Liberty.<\/p>\n
The Mercury have gone 14-6 at home. Phoenix ranks fifth in the WNBA with 34.6 rebounds led by Alyssa Thomas averaging 8.9.<\/p>\n
The Fever are 10-10 on the road. Indiana ranks second in the WNBA scoring 40.1 points per game in the paint led by Aliyah Boston averaging 10.8.<\/p>\n
Phoenix averages 83.1 points per game, 0.9 more points than the 82.2 Indiana gives up. Indiana has shot at a 45.3% clip from the field this season, 2.7 percentage points higher than the 42.6% shooting opponents of Phoenix have averaged.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the third time this season. The Mercury won 95-60 in the last matchup on Aug. 8.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Satou Sabally is averaging 16.6 points and 6.1 rebounds for the Mercury. Copper is averaging 16.3 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Boston is averaging 15.4 points, 8.3 rebounds and 3.6 assists for the Fever. Kelsey Mitchell is averaging 21.4 points and 1.6 rebounds while shooting 42.2% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Mercury: 7-3, averaging 82.4 points, 35.4 rebounds, 21.5 assists, 7.2 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 43.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 77.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
Fever: 4-6, averaging 82.3 points, 33.1 rebounds, 19.5 assists, 7.5 steals and 3.0 blocks per game while shooting 44.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 84.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Mercury: None listed.<\/p>\n
Fever: Chloe Bibby: out (knee), Sydney Colson: out for season (knee), Caitlin Clark: out (groin), Sophie Cunningham: out for season (knee), Aari McDonald: out for season (foot). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever (21-19, 11-8 Eastern Conference) at Phoenix Mercury (25-14, 13-9 Western Conference) Phoenix; Tuesday, 9 p.m. CDT…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":194248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[1491,5229,5643,1587,234,20022,1589,1502,1425,30233,53900,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-194247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-aliyah-boston","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-az","12":"tag-indiana-fever","13":"tag-kahleah-copper","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-phoenix-mercury","16":"tag-playoffs","17":"tag-rebounds","18":"tag-scoring","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115135029124613025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194247","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=194247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}