Overview

• Satou Sabally led Phoenix with 25 points and matched her career high by draining seven of her 10 three-point attempts.
• Alyssa Thomas flirted with a triple-double, finishing with 17 points, 15 assists and nine rebounds as the Mercury tallied 30 assists on 41 made baskets.
• Sami Whitcomb added 15 points off the bench and Kahleah Copper chipped in 12 in her first home game back from knee surgery.
• The 18 made threes broke Phoenix’s single-game record and capped a two-game stretch of 35 triples, establishing a new WNBA mark for consecutive-game three-point shooting.
• The victory improved Phoenix to 12-4 and lifted them past the 11-4 Liberty into second place, while New York has lost four of its last six games dealing with Jones’s ankle setback and Ionescu’s neck issue.