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Mercury Star Calls Out WNBA Over Paige Bueckers Video Post originally appeared on Athlon Sports.
If you had not seen the Wednesday night matchup between the Phoenix Mercury and the Dallas Wings, and instead had only caught the WNBA highlights posted on the league’s Twitter/X account, you would surely be more than a little surprised to find out this simple fact: The Mercury won the game.
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Pretty comfortably, in fact. The Mercury took the lead with a little more than three minutes to go in the first half and never relinquished it after, winning by a 93-80 count.
Yet in the league’s highlight video on Thursday morning, it was all about Wings star Paige Bueckers, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 WNBA draft who had been out for almost two weeks with a concussion and an illness. She came back strong, with 35 points on 13-for-19 shooting.
Still, the Mercury won, led by 20 points from Satou Sabally. The league’s highlight video, though, featured 2:24 of Bueckers plays.
Kahleah Copper, Phoenix Mercury© Megan Mendoza/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
The Mercury, in response, put together their own highlight package, with a rather flippant caption to the post: “When we won the game but don’t have a single highlight in the 2:24 recap video from the WNBA. So we put together some Mercury highlights from last night’s game in case you watched the other video and didn’t see a single one … because there wasn’t a single one.”
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Phoenix star Kahleah Copper, who is out with a knee injury, chimed in to call out the WNBA, too. “Do better @WNBA,” she wrote.
Indeed, Bueckers is having a fine rookie campaign, and her return from injury was big news in the league. But the Wings are now 1-10. The Mercury, meanwhile, are 7-4 even without Copper, a four-time All-Star. Phoenix is in second place in the Western Conference and sits with the fourth-best record in the league.
Dallas is dead last.
This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 13, 2025, where it first appeared.
