{"id":240640,"date":"2025-09-20T04:54:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240640\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T04:54:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:54:33","slug":"phoenix-mercury-schedule-in-wnba-semifinals-vs-lynx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240640\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Mercury schedule in WNBA semifinals vs Lynx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Mercury advanced to the WNBA semifinals with a win over the New York Liberty on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>They will take on the Minnesota Lynx in a best-of-five series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/46030946\/wnba-playoffs-schedule-2025-games-first-round-semifinals-finals-scores-results-news-highlights#SFROUND\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">starting on Sunday<\/a> in the Twin Cities.<\/p>\n<p>The series will follow a 2-2-1 format with Game 2 slated for Tuesday and the <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/phoenix-mercury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mercury<\/a> hosting Game 3 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>If necessary, Game 4 will be in Phoenix on Sept. 28 and Game 5 will be back in Minnesota on Sept. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Last time the Mercury made it this far<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, the Mercury lost in the Finals to the Chicago Sky.<\/p>\n<p>They have made the playoffs in two of the four season since but lost in the first round both times.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Nate Tibbetts has led the Mercury to the playoffs in both of his seasons as head coach. This was the first series win for Tibbetts as head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Mercury results vs. the Lynx this season<\/p>\n<p>The Lynx won the season series vs the Mercury 3-1 this season.<\/p>\n<p>The first game was a 74-71 win for the Lynx in Phoenix on May 30.<\/p>\n<p>They Lynx took the second game by a 23-point margin, 88-65, in Minnesota on June 3.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the Mercury got some revenge on July 9 with a 79-71 win back in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>The Lynx capped off the series finale with a 79-66 win over the Mercury on July 16.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomkuebelaz\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @tomkuebelaz<\/a><\/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":"The Phoenix Mercury advanced to the WNBA semifinals with a win over the New York Liberty on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":240641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1846,1587,316,1589,1845,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-240640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-arizona-sports-now-on-98-7-fm","11":"tag-az","12":"tag-home","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-phoenix-arizona-sports-news-phoenix-breaking-sports-news","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115234843144576610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240640","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=240640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}