Amoore signs with Lynx then torches Sami's Mercury

• Amoore scored a career-high 25 points on the day Perth signed her
• She beat her previous WNBA best by 11 points, and made six threes
• Whitcomb played 19 minutes for Phoenix, a day after her WNBL27 season ended (13)
• Amoore has started all 39 WNBA appearances this year at 3.4 assists

Australian WNBA point guard Georgia Amoore signed with the Perth Lynx around 24 hours after Sami Whitcomb was ruled out for the entire WNBL27 season.

And she marked her first day as a Perth Lynx signing with the best game of her WNBA career, a career-high 25 points for Washington against Whitcomb's Phoenix Mercury today (AEST).

Amoore, 25, went 9-from-16 from the field and 6-from-11 from three, added four assists and two steals in 30 minutes, and was on the floor for a +7 as the Mystics won 80-73. She dropped 17 in fourth quarter!

Both of those are career bests. In 39 games this season her previous high was 14 points, and she had never made more than four three-pointers in a game.

"First of all, it’s amazing," Amoore said.

" think we just have the best culture, the best support. It doesn’t matter, you know, the good days or bad days. We’ve cultivated a really good culture here, and it’s something that I’m super grateful to be part of.

"But in the clutch, when all the gravity is on Sonia and she’s coming off ball screens and making good looks, you just gotta find your windows.

"That, for me, has been something this season – knowing that my teammates are phenomenal and my windows are there. I just have to be ready to take them.

"When you need the energy at the end of the game, I took them, and fortunately enough, I made them tonight."

Whitcomb played 19 minutes for Phoenix and scored three, a day after the Lynx confirmed the knee injury that has ended her WNBL27 season before it started.

The Perth statement said Whitcomb "remains committed to completing her current WNBA basketball commitments."

Amoore said her rookie year was a learning curve but she was more confident in her role.

I feel like I got to a point a couple of games ago where I was like, 'OK, come on now. You gotta be a little bit more aggressive'," she revealed.

"That’s also the communication that we have with the staff. Obviously, I love to share the ball and I love to pass the ball, but I also bring scoring.

"I think it’s just part of the journey coming back and, once again, finding my windows.

"I joke because I think in the last two games I took two terrible shots, but I think that was part of the journey of trying to find that aggression again.

"It’s really just been patience and figuring it out, for sure."

The Lynx announced Amoore's today, pending league approval, less than 24 hours after ruling Whitcomb out.

"I'm really excited to be joining Perth and getting the opportunity to come home and play in the WNBL," Amoore said.

"From my first conversations with [head coach] Ryan [Petrik] and the club, I really liked the way they spoke about how they want to play.

"I love playing fast, getting up and down the floor and creating for the people around me, so I think it's going to be a really good fit.

"To be able to bring my experiences back to Australia, join a club with high expectations and be part of a team that wants to compete for a championship is really exciting."

Petrik was as direct about why he wanted her.

"She plays with pace, she can create her own shot, she makes the players around her better, and she has shown throughout her career that she embraces the big moments," the Lynx coach said.

"To bring an Australian guard of her caliber back home and into our program is massive for us."

The Ballarat-born guard was the sixth pick in the 2025 WNBA Draft and then lost the whole of that season to an ACL injury suffered at a Mystics practice. She has started every one of her 39 appearances since returning, averaging 6.5 points and 3.4 assists.

Before that came five college seasons, four at Virginia Tech and a fifth at Kentucky, in which she started 155 of 157 games and finished with 2,460 points, 869 assists and 408 three-pointers. Only two players in NCAA Division I women's history had reached 2,300 points and 800 assists before her.

She was ACC Tournament MVP in 2023, when Virginia Tech reached the first Final Four in the program's history and she set an NCAA Tournament record with 24 three-pointers. In her final year at Kentucky she averaged 19.6 points and 6.9 assists, made first team All-SEC and second team AP All-America, and broke the program's single-season assists record.

Amoore is the eighth player signed for Perth's WNBL27 season, alongside Samantha Ashby, Alex Ciabattoni, Steph Gorman, Nya Lok, Anneli Maley, Teige Morrell and Haley Peters.

The Lynx open against Townsville at the Perth High Performance Centre on October 17, in a rematch of the WNBL26 Grand Final.