{"id":264002,"date":"2025-09-29T14:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/264002\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:26:11","slug":"mercury-rally-to-beat-lynx-advance-to-wnba-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/264002\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury rally to beat Lynx, advance to WNBA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gettyimages-2237682392-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Kahleah Copper #2 of the Phoenix Mercury shows the &#8220;This is Finals&#8221; T-shirt after the game against the Minnesota Lynx during Game Four of the 2025 WNBA Playoffs semifinals on September 28, 2025, at PHX Arena in Phoenix, Arizona. <strong class=\"source\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">(Photo by Barry Gossage\/NBAE via Getty Images)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>PHOENIX<\/strong> &#8211; The Phoenix Mercury are back in the WNBA Finals after they overcame a 13-point, fourth-quarter deficit on Sunday to beat the Minnesota Lynx.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">By the numbers:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Alyssa Thomas led <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/sports\/wnba\/mercury\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Phoenix<\/strong><\/a> with 23 points. Satou Sabally added 21.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Kayla McBride scored 31 for Minnesota, who were playing without Napheesa Collier, who suffered an ankle injury in Game 3.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Mercury will play the winner of the Las Vegas Aces and Indiana Fever series, which is tied 2-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/sports\/wnba\/mercury\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phoenix Mercury<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Kahleah Copper #2 of the Phoenix Mercury shows the &#8220;This is Finals&#8221; T-shirt after the game against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":264003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,160,1589,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-264002","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-az","11":"tag-mercury","12":"tag-phoenix","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa","20":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115288053377733751","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264002","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=264002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}