Though most scholars credit James Naismith with the invention of basketball, Buckingham Palace historians have uncovered evidence of Elizabethan peach baskets torn to bits by the queen's rim-shaking tomahawk dunks. Marvel at modern jams with today's GrouponLive deal: for $14, you get one lower-level ticket, plus a complimentary foam finger, to a Phoenix Mercury home game against the New York Liberty at the US Airways Center on Tuesday, August 23, at 7 p.m. (a $44.25 value before fees, or up to a $54.75 value online, including all Ticketmaster fees). Seats will be in sections 104–106 or 110–112 between rows AA and 28.

After claiming the WNBA crown in 2007 and 2009, the Phoenix Mercury are poised to make another run at the title in 2011. Led by returning star Diana Taurasi, wingwoman Penny Taylor, and towering forward Candice Dupree, the Mercury delight sports fanatics, families, and first-daters with their on-the-court antics and off-the-court antique dealing. Revel in a sea of purple and orange or high-five a friend with a complimentary foam finger as the Mercury take on Cappie Pondexter and the New York Liberty. With a close-to-the-hoop seat in the lower-level sections, fans get a perfect view of the laws of attraction between bouncing spheres and nylon nets.

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