The West Coast Showdown: Phoenix Mercury vs Las Vegas Aces

The Phoenix Mercury players came out of the tunnel excited for the start of the new WNBA season. Every player and staff member was wearing black t-shirts with ‘BG’ in white letters. The t-shirts were honoring Brittney Griner, their very own Mercury player, who is currently in custody in Russia. Sophie Cunningham made a small […]

DIANA TAURASI WINS RECORD-SETTING FIFTH OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL

| Three more gold medals are headed back to the Valley as the Mercury trio of Diana Taurasi, Brittney Griner and Skylar Diggins-Smith won gold tonight in Tokyo with the USA Women’s National Team. Already the greatest women’s basketball player of all time, Taurasi won her fifth Olympic gold medal (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2021), joining […]

MVP CANDIDATE BRITTNEY GRINER AGAIN NAMED WESTERN CONFERENCE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

014 WNBA Champion, two-time Defensive Player of the Year and two-time WNBA scoring leader Brittney Griner was once again named the Western Conference Player of the Week, as announced by the league office today. It’s the 13th honor of her career, the second-most by a Mercury player in franchise history (Diana Taurasi, 20), her franchise-record […]

Diana Taurasi Expected to Miss At Least 4 Weeks Due To Injury

| PHOENIX – Phoenix Mercury guard Diana Taurasi is expected to miss at least four weeks after suffering a chest injury in the Mercury’s game on May 16 at Connecticut, the team announced today. Taurasi played the subsequent two games (May 18 at Washington, May 21 vs. Connecticut) but a CT Scan this week revealed a […]

Diana Taurasi Signs With Phoenix Mercury

| When someone thinks of the Phoenix Mercury, Diana Taurasi is probably one of the first players people think of. In fact, Taurasi mentioned in her press conference, “You know when they say my name, I want them to think Phoenix Mercury and vice versa. I wouldn’t want it any other way.” It was announced that […]

Diana Taurasi honors Kobe Bryant on his 42nd Birthday

| Mercury guard and WNBA all-time leading scorer Diana Taurasi honored the late Kobe Bryant by wearing a No. 8 ‘BRYANT’ jersey on what would have been his 42nd birthday yesterday. A strong advocate, supporter, and ally of the WNBA and women’s basketball as a whole, Kobe deemed Diana the ‘White Mamba’, as the two always […]

Customs Take The Front Seat

||||||| The last three-game “home stand” for the Phoenix Mercury brought a lot of interesting shoes, including customs and the like.

Rock the Pink Day for the Cause

||| The line-up still wasn’t announced ten minutes before the game. Everyone in Talking Stick Resort Arena was wondering if this could be the game, the game Diana Taurasi is back and in the starting line-up. Right before the start of the game, it was announced that Diana Taurasi would be starting in her first home […]

The Mercury Is Changing It Up

| Even though it was a rough game for both the Phoenix Mercury and the Atlanta Dream, their shoe game was still on point.

Get Social with Essence Carson

|||| Even when taking a hiatus from social media, Essence still gets on Instagram to look at the inspirational pages including pages for relationships and spirituality to help grow herself. She did admit she does like to follow some meme pages for the shade and some good laughs.

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