Rendering of proposed Phoenix Mercury practice facility. Photo: Phoenix Suns/Mercury. The Phoenix Mercury and Phoenix Suns owner Matt Ishbia announced a $100 Million investment in a new dedicated state-of-the-art practice facility for the Phoenix Mercury and business headquarters for the WNBA team and the NBA Phoenix Suns. “We are working every day to make the
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When the Phoenix Mercury lost to the Dallas Wings on Sunday, it ended an impressive period of sustained success. After a league-leading 10-year streak, the team will not be making the W.N.B.A. playoffs this season. Being good enough to make the playoffs year after year is surprisingly difficult in sports. Player turnover, coaching changes or
The Phoenix Mercury fired head coach Vanessa Nygaard the team announced Sunday. The team has a five-game losing streak and sits at 2-10. The team hired Nygaard on January 24, 2002. She compiled a 17-30 regular season record in two seasons. “We have chosen to make a change at head coach,” said Mercury General Manager Jim
With the WNBA Finals and World Cup over, it’s time to take a look back at what each WNBA team did this season and forward at what their offseason goals should be. With the Atlanta Dream already covered by Avery Wiggins, we move on to the No. 8 seed Phoenix Mercury, who were eliminated in
The New York Liberty are no longer in playoff position. Their perfect record during this much-talked-about final eight-game stretch is no more. They had narrowly averted a let down on Wednesday and the path seemed clear for them to keep rolling; next up was a Saturday night matchup against a Phoenix Mercury team that they
Here’s what happened in the world of women’s basketball this past week: Brittney Griner receives a sentence of nine years in prison On Thursday, Griner was convicted of drug smuggling and possession and sentenced to nine years in prison in Russia. While her lawyers have confirmed plans to appeal the sentence, many in the basketball
Tina Charles. Photo: WNBA. Veteran Phoenix Mercury center Tina Charles quit the Phoenix Mercury this weekend ahead of the team’s game at Dallas Saturday evening. Ron Thulin, the Wings’ play-by-play announcer was the first to make Charles’ break from the team public via Twitter. After the news broke, the Mercury issued the following statement: The
The Phoenix Mercury players, coaches, staff, and the player’s union, the WNBPA, met with members of the United States Department of State to discuss the status of teammate Brittney Griner’s wrongful detention in Russia. Today marks 166 days that the Mercury center has been detained. Following the meeting, the team met with U.S. Congressman Greg
Two weeks ago, the Phoenix Mercury submitted one of the worst performances of the WNBA season, a 27-point loss to the Atlanta Dream when the Mercury looked noncompetitive almost from the jump. It was the team’s fifth consecutive defeat, dropping Phoenix to 2-6 a year after making the WNBA Finals. Brittney Griner’s ongoing detention in
Memorial Day weekend features a marquee matchup ripe for primetime television as Sunday afternoon the Phoenix Mercury and the Atlanta Dream will play before a nationally-televised audience on CBS. The Dream, coming off of picking No. 1 in the draft, have gotten off to a good start at 4-3, which is seventh in the WNBA.
Phoenix Mercury fans in the team’s local market will enjoy a team-record of 27 televised games this season. Bally Sports Arizona and Bally Sports Extra is Phoenix’s exclusive local broadcast partner. An additional nine games will air on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, and CBS. As a result, all 36 Mercury regular-season games will be broadcast. The
The Phoenix Mercury have got themselves a new head coach, with The Athletic’s Chantel Jennings reporting that former Las Vegas Aces assistant Vanessa Nygaard will be hired as the Mercury’s next head coach. Nygaard replaces Sandy Brondello, who was hired as the New York Liberty’s head coach in early January after her contract expired following
The Phoenix Mercury’s search for their next head coach will continue after New Orleans assistant coach Teresa Weatherspoon withdrew her name from consideration as the next head honcho of the Mercury, per The Athletic’s Shams Charania. Sources: Basketball Hall of Famer Teresa Weatherspoon is removing her name from consideration for head coaching job with the
The Phoenix Mercury were so good in their semifinal series against the Aces last year that they arguably became the favorite entering the Finals. Diana Taurasi was vintage Diana Taurasi and Brittney Griner was just as good, giving Phoenix the most dangerous offense in the tournament. The Mercury have reason to be optimistic about another