{"id":871809,"date":"2026-06-16T19:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/871809\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:21:24","slug":"phoenix-mercury-adopt-local-high-school-basketball-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/871809\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Mercury adopt local high school basketball team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/mercury.wnba.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/mercury.wnba.com\/\">Phoenix Mercury<\/a> are doing Something Good by mentoring the next generation of possible WBNA stars. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Since 2007, the Mercury have partnered with a local high school girls basketball team for their \u201cAdopt-A-Team\u201d program, providing an opportunity for the young players to learn from them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">This year, the Alhambra High School girls basketball team was selected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">The young athletes got to shoot hoops with the Mercury during their practice and hear from Mercury star player Alyssa Thomas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">The organization also provides the selected team with new equipment and tickets to games throughout the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Thanks to the Phoenix Mercury organization for leading the charge and inspiring Valley youth! <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Know of someone or an organization doing something good in your community? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/something-good-nomination-form\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/something-good-nomination-form\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nominate them for our segment here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 The Phoenix Mercury are doing Something Good by mentoring the next generation of possible WBNA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":871810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[4552,5229,5643,12524,1587,290137,7182,160,1589,354645,1502,7183,39545,39263,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,354646],"class_list":["post-871809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-alyssa-thomas","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-arizonas-family","tag-az","tag-az-sports","tag-azfamily","tag-mercury","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-high-school-basketball","tag-phoenix-mercury","tag-phoenix-news","tag-phoenix-sports","tag-something-good","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wbna"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116761414230218980","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871809","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=871809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}