{"id":219810,"date":"2025-09-12T03:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/219810\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T03:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:11:11","slug":"monique-akoa-makani-up-in-mercury-records-after-wings-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/219810\/","title":{"rendered":"Monique Akoa Makani up in Mercury records after Wings loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix Mercury\u2019s Monique Akoa Makani moved higher up in the franchise\u2019s record book for most 3s made by a rookie, as they fell 97-76 to the Dallas Wings on Thursday to close out the 2025 WNBA regular season.<\/p>\n<p>With her second 3-ball in the contest, Akoa Makani <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PhoenixMercury\/status\/1966301099025133820\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">passed<\/a> Cappie Pondexter (2006) with 48 made this year. The undrafted rookie from Cameroon only trails Diana Taurasi\u2019s mark of 62 set back in 2004.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mo moves past Cappie Pondexter for the 2nd-most threes by a rookie in Mercury history \u2013 trailing only the GOAT, Diana Taurasi. \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>(excludes the inaugural 1997 season) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tr8ph4yCz8\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Tr8ph4yCz8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Phoenix Mercury (@PhoenixMercury) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhoenixMercury\/status\/1966301099025133820?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">September 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Phoenix (27-17), which has lost three in a row, had <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/wnba\/phoenix-mercury\/playoffs-liberty\/3595481\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">already clinched the No. 4 seed<\/a> in the WNBA playoffs and will face the No. 5 seed New York Liberty in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>Paige Bueckers had 24 points, Amy Okonkwo and Aziaha James each added 20 points off the bench for the Dallas Wings\u2019 10th win of the season \u2014 they finished 10-34.<\/p>\n<p>Satou Sabally led Phoenix with 14 points and Kalani Brown added 12. Alyssa Thomas had three points in her 13 minutes on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Maddy Siegrist scored 10 points for Dallas. Myisha Hines-Allen grabbed 10 rebounds to go with seven points.<\/p>\n<p>Bueckers topped Arike Ogunbowale for the top scoring average by a rookie in franchise history (19.2), while also moving into fifth in WNBA history for most 20-point games by a first-year player at 17.<\/p>\n<p>Bueckers moved past Sue Bird (191 in 2002) for the second most assists by a rookie in WNBA history. Bueckers also passed A\u2019ja Wilson (682) for the third-most points by a rookie.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix started the game making 7 of 8 field goals to take a 20-6 lead following a 10-0 run. But the Wings made eight of their final 12 shots in the frame to make it 28-25.<\/p>\n<p>Bueckers scored 10 of her 15 first-half points in the final 2:30 to help Dallas build a 57-47 lead. The Wings outscored the Mercury 25-13 in the third quarter to take control at 82-60.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas evened the season series with Phoenix at 2-2, with both teams defending their home courts.<\/p>\n<p>Playoff push next up for Akoa Makani, Mercury<\/p>\n<p>The Mercury-Liberty series, which will be a best-of-three set, gets underway from Phoenix on Sept. 14.<\/p>\n<p>The full series schedule will be announced following the conclusion of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoenix Mercury\u2019s Monique Akoa Makani moved higher up in the franchise\u2019s record book for most 3s made by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":219811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1846,316,1845,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-219810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-arizona-sports-now-on-98-7-fm","9":"tag-home","10":"tag-phoenix-arizona-sports-news-phoenix-breaking-sports-news","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115189139824541190","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219810","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=219810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}