Overview
- The Tempo, which won Tuesday in Phoenix, moved to 3-2 as the Mercury slipped to 2-3.
- Toronto hit 15 three-pointers while Phoenix went 4-for-22 from deep, a gap that swung the game.
- Toronto opened the fourth quarter on a 12-4 burst and closed it on Marina Mabrey’s sixth corner three with 1:25 left.
- Brittney Sykes scored 31 and Marina Mabrey added 30 with six threes, following Sykes’ 38-point outing two days earlier in Los Angeles.
- Kahleah Copper led Phoenix with 18, Alyssa Thomas had 17, and Jovana Nogic added 13, while Natasha Mack posted 12 points and 10 boards before exiting late in the third after a hard fall.