Mercury sink team-record 17 3s in blowout of Sky

CHICAGO -- Sami Whitcomb deed 5 of the Mercury's franchise-record 17 3-pointers and finished with 17 points, Kahleah Copper scored 16, and the Phoenix Mercury bushed the Chicago Sky 107-86 connected Saturday.

Kalani Brown deed a 3 -- the 2nd of the 6-foot-7 center's vocation -- with 25.6 seconds near to interruption the Mercury's erstwhile grounds of 16.

Six Phoenix players deed astatine slightest 2 3-pointers, tying the WNBA single-game record.

Angel Reese finished with 9 points and a career-low 2 rebounds for the Sky, who had conscionable 22 rebounds arsenic a team.

Phoenix (11-4) acceptable a play precocious for points successful a crippled and has won 5 successful row, including an 89-81 triumph implicit defending WNBA champion New York connected Thursday, for the archetypal clip since the Mercury won 10 consecutive successful 2021.

Satou Sabally scored 15 points for the Mercury, and Alyssa Thomas had 11 points and 8 assists. Brown and Kitija Laksa added 11 points apiece.

Chicago (3-9) has mislaid 5 of six. Kamilla Cardoso and Michaela Onyenwere led the Sky with 17 points apiece.

Phoenix went 35-of-68 from the field, 17-of-35 from 3-point scope and 20-of-24 from the escaped propulsion enactment and finished with 25 assists.