Minnesota Lynx (17-2, 12-1 Western Conference) at Phoenix Mercury (13-6, 7-6 Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Phoenix; Wednesday, 3:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Phoenix Mercury faces the Minnesota Lynx after Sami Whitcomb scored 36 points in the Phoenix Mercury’s 102-72 win against the Dallas Wings.<\/p>\n
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The Mercury are 7-6 against Western Conference opponents. Phoenix is fourth in the Western Conference in team defense, allowing 79.9 points while holding opponents to 42.7% shooting.<\/p>\n
The Lynx’s record in Western Conference action is 12-1. Minnesota ranks second in the Western Conference shooting 35.6% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
Phoenix scores 84.8 points, 10.7 more per game than the 74.1 Minnesota allows. Minnesota averages 9.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.5 more made shots on average than the 7.8 per game Phoenix allows.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the third time this season. The Lynx won the last matchup 88-65 on June 4. Napheesa Collier scored 18 points to help lead the Lynx to the win.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Kathryn Westbeld is averaging 6.8 points for the Mercury. Satou Sabally is averaging 16.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Courtney Williams is averaging 13.5 points, 5.9 assists and 1.5 steals for the Lynx. Collier is averaging 18.4 points and 5.7 rebounds while shooting 53.1% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Mercury: 7-3, averaging 90.3 points, 35.0 rebounds, 23.0 assists, 8.6 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 44.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 82.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
Lynx: 8-2, averaging 85.9 points, 33.1 rebounds, 23.8 assists, 7.2 steals and 6.0 blocks per game while shooting 46.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 74.4 points.<\/p>\n
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INJURIES: Mercury: Kahleah Copper: out (hamstring), Alexa Held: out (chest), Satou Sabally: out (ankle).<\/p>\n
Lynx: Karlie Samuelson: out for season (foot).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Lynx (17-2, 12-1 Western Conference) at Phoenix Mercury (13-6, 7-6 Western Conference) Phoenix; Wednesday, 3:30 p.m. EDT…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,5616,2470,20022,36918,36917,1519,2336,1589,1502,19714,20021,19709,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7184],"class_list":{"0":"post-48151","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-courtney-williams","12":"tag-dallas-wings","13":"tag-kahleah-copper","14":"tag-karlie-samuelson","15":"tag-kathryn-westbeld","16":"tag-minnesota-lynx","17":"tag-napheesa-collier","18":"tag-phoenix","19":"tag-phoenix-mercury","20":"tag-sami-whitcomb","21":"tag-satou-sabally","22":"tag-the-mercury","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa","29":"tag-western-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114816543937459708","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48151","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=48151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}