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Thus far, external candidates, including Cleveland’s Mike Gansey, Minnesota’s Matt Lloyd, and Phoenix Mercury general manager Nick U'Ren, have emerged. Internally, 76ers assistant general manager Jameer Nelson has also positioned himself well to remain with the organization and be in the mix for a possible promotion, league sources told HoopsHype.
Nick U’Ren, general manager for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, is expected to interview for the position, according to league sources. Current Minnesota Timberwolves general manager Matt Lloyd is also expected to interview. Lloyd, league sources say, has the backing of a few key members of the Sixers’ organization. He was a finalist for the Chicago Bulls front-office opening that eventually went to Bryson Graham. Trent Redden, currently the general manager with the LA Clippers, has also emerged as a candidate, per league sources.
Marc Stein: Cavaliers GM Mike Gansey and Phoenix Mercury GM Nick U'ren, who worked for the Warriors before his move to the WNBA, have emerged as names to watch in Philadelphia's front office search, @TheSteinLine has learned. Adding to our existing Philly coverage: tinyurl.com/2hw5e8pj
ESPN: Breaking: Four-time WNBA All-Star and Olympic gold medalist Kahleah Copper is returning to the Phoenix Mercury, the team announced Sunday.
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Michael Scotto: Washington Wizards G League assistant coach TC Swirsky is joining the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury as an assistant coach on the staff of Nate Tibbetts, league sources told @hoopshype . Swirsky was previously head coach of the Memphis Grizzlies’ G League affiliate, the Memphis Hustle.
For Ishbia's majority ownership to be in jeopardy, the judge in the lawsuit would need to decide that Ishbia failed to fund the capital call by his own deadline and therefore, per the terms of the operating agreement, Ishbia must offer the minority owners the opportunity to fund his unfunded share at the $10 million per unit price set in his capital call notice. If that were to happen, Seldin and Kohlberg could take over the majority ownership of the Suns and Phoenix Mercury with a stake of approximately 60%.
The Athletic: NEWS: The Phoenix Mercury have announced a complete rebrand that includes an updated logo 👀 A new uniform is expected to be released on Tuesday.
NEWS: The Phoenix Mercury have announced a complete rebrand that includes an updated logo 👀 A new uniform is expected to be released on Tuesday.
— The Athletic (@theathletic.com) 2025-11-24T15:34:35.629Z
The next head coach of the WNBA's New York Liberty, according to league sources, will be one of these three finalists: Phoenix Mercury assistant coach Kristi Tolliver, former Nets assistant Will Weaver and Raptors assistant Jama Mahlalela.
The Las Vegas Aces defeated the Phoenix Mercury 97-86 in a dominant performance Friday night to win their third WNBA championship in four years and cement their status as the league's reigning dynasty. The Aces completed a four-game sweep of the Mercury in the first best-of-seven WNBA Finals in league history. Aces superstar and four-time league MVP A'ja Wilson led the way in Game 4, finishing with 31 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 blocks en route to earning Finals MVP honors. She averaged 28.5 points, 11.8 rebounds and 2 blocks in the Finals. "You have your Mount Rushmore, she's alone on Everest," Aces coach Becky Hammon said. "There's no one around."
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For all the tumult off the court, the WNBA audience keeps growing in ways that would have been hard to fathom just three years ago. Friday’s Mercury-Aces WNBA Finals Game 1 averaged 1.9 million viewers on ESPN, up 62% from Lynx-Liberty last year (1.1M) and the most-watched Finals opener since the inaugural edition in 1997, a single-elimination Liberty-Comets game that averaged 2.8 million on NBC.
The Suns and Mercury signed a 10-year, nearly $115M naming rights partnership with United Wholesale Mortgage to name the Phoenix arena after UWM’s Mortgage Matchup brand. The deal, one of the largest in the NBA and WNBA, will see the arena renamed Mortgage Matchup Center. In addition to arena naming rights, the partnership establishes Mortgage Matchup as the official mortgage partner of the Suns, Mercury and the G League Valley Suns. Mortgage Matchup has also been the official mortgage partner of the NBA and WNBA since May 2024 (Suns).
Wilson and the Aces now open the WNBA Finals on Friday against the Phoenix Mercury in Las Vegas. Despite being a regular at Wilson’s games during the NBA offseason, Adebayo will need to watch the championship series from afar with the Heat in the middle of training camp and the preseason. “A lot of stress, a lot of prayer,” Adebayo, 28, said of watching Wilson and the Las Vegas Aces push for another title. “That’s really what it is, man. But the No. 1 one thing is just praying obviously they come out unscathed and she comes out unscathed. And obviously you want to see her win. That’s the biggest thing I want in life, I want her to win. “I want her to keep being and setting a higher standard for everybody to where people think it’s impossible until it’s done. I want people, when she’s done, to be like this is the greatest women’s basketball player to ever touch a basketball. From the time she touched it to the time she left.”
Two years after being the first NBA team to abandon its struggling regional television network partner, the Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury are celebrating a proof of concept with a new local media rights deal that has virtually replaced the revenue. The Suns and Mercury have agreed to a two-year extension with Gray Media to broadcast their games free over the air across Arizona through the 2027-28 season. The deal is worth more than $30 million per season, sources familiar with the matter told ESPN, restoring the money they left on the table when walking away from a long-standing partnership with then bankrupt Diamond Sports in 2023.