The Fever-Sky game Sunday averaged 3.31 million viewers on NBC and Peacock to make it the most-watched regular-season WNBA game since the league's inaugural season in 1997.
Five-time WNBA All-Star Kelsey Plum, traded from the Los Angeles Sparks on Saturday night, scored 20 points in her Phoenix debut, helping the Mercury to defeat the Chicago Sky 106-101 on Monday night at Wintrust Arena.
Sydney Taylor hit a go-ahead 3-pointer to beat the defending champion Aces 84-83, became the first rookie in Sky franchise history to sink a 3 in the final five seconds of the fourth quarter or overtime.
Chicago Sky guard DiJonai Carrington plans to make her season debut on Thursday against the Connecticut Sun barring a setback pregame, she told ESPN.
The WNBA and players' association held a videoconference Tuesday to discuss a variety of issues, including recent "racist, hateful, and abusive messages directed at players," according to a joint statement released Wednesday.
Teresa Weatherspoon bragged about the competitiveness of her team as the 2026 WNBA All-Star draft concluded Wednesday. Her All-Star general manager counterpart Cynthia Cooper said in response: "But can you score enough points?"
