{"id":18063,"date":"2025-07-24T05:07:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/griner-shines-in-return-to-phoenix-dream-defeats-mercury-in-the-wnba\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T05:07:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:07:02","slug":"griner-shines-in-return-to-phoenix-dream-defeats-mercury-in-the-wnba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wnba\/griner-shines-in-return-to-phoenix-dream-defeats-mercury-in-the-wnba\/","title":{"rendered":"Griner shines in return to Phoenix: Dream defeats Mercury in the WNBA"},"content":{"rendered":"In an exciting WNBA matchup, Brittney Griner led the Atlanta Dream over the Phoenix Mercury, with a final score of 90-79. The game, which took place on Wednesday night, marked Griner&#8217;s return to Phoenix, where she built a distinguished 11-season career with the Mercury.\n\n<h2>Emotional Return of Griner<\/h2>\n\nGriner, who previously played for the Mercury, proved her worth by scoring 17 points and grabbing eight rebounds. The match had a special meaning, as it represented her return to the city where she started and developed much of her professional career.\n\nBefore the game, the Mercury paid tribute to Griner with a moving video, with her former teammates Diana Taurasi and Penny Taylor present on the court.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>When I looked and saw D and Penny there, it lit me up a little bit. Being back on the court where I basically started my career, where I played most of it, felt good. The crowd, seeing familiar faces, hearing old stories, signing jerseys that I&#8217;ve signed a thousand times, it was good. It was a really good feeling.<\/p><cite>Brittney Griner<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0724%2Fr1522972_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Dream center Brittney Griner, left, with former teammate Diana Taurasi, played 11 seasons for the Mercury, winning a title with them in 2014.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>La jugadora de las Dream, Brittney Griner, junto a su ex compa\u00f1era de equipo Diana Taurasi. Griner jug\u00f3 11 temporadas para las Mercury, ganando un t\u00edtulo con ellas en 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2>Allisha Gray Shines with 28 Points<\/h2>\n\nAllisha Gray shone with an outstanding performance, scoring 28 points, including a basket that extended the Dream&#8217;s lead to 84-71 with 3:03 left in the game. Despite the attempts of Sami Whitcomb, who scored consecutive three-pointers to bring Phoenix closer, Griner responded with a basket that secured Atlanta&#8217;s lead.\n\n<h2>Other Key Players<\/h2>\n\nJordin Canada contributed 14 points, while Shatori Walker-Kimbrough added 11 for the Dream. On the other hand, Rhyne Howard, Atlanta&#8217;s second-leading scorer, did not participate in the game. Gray demonstrated her effectiveness by scoring 10 of 16 shots, achieving her tenth 20-point game this season.\n\nSatou Sabally and Kahleah Copper returned to the Phoenix starting lineup after recovering from injuries. Sabally finished with 13 points, Copper with 10, and DeWanna Bonner with 18.\n\nIn the first half, Gray scored 13 points, helping Atlanta take a 39-34 lead. Despite a low field goal percentage for Phoenix, the team stayed close thanks to their free throw effectiveness.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an exciting WNBA matchup, Brittney Griner led the Atlanta Dream over the Phoenix Mercury, with a final score of 90-79. The game, which took place on Wednesday night, marked Griner&#8217;s return to Phoenix, where she built a distinguished 11-season career with the Mercury. Emotional Return of Griner Griner, who previously played for the Mercury, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[385,2401,2459,382],"class_list":{"0":"post-18063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-atlanta-dream","9":"tag-brittney-griner","10":"tag-phoenix-mercury","11":"tag-wnba"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}