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22.2* – Cynthia Cooper, Houston 1997 (*inaugural WNBA season) [35] 21.9 – Seimone Augustus, Minnesota 2006; 20.7 – A'ja Wilson, Las Vegas 2018; Most points in first career game (WNBA debut) 34 – Candace Parker, Los Angeles at Phoenix, May 17, 2008 [36] 27 – Napheesa Collier, Minnesota vs. Chicago, May 25, 2019
On January 16, 2023, Maya Moore announced that she was officially retiring from basketball. Moore had not played since the 2018 season and had taken time off to focus on other initiatives. [17] Over her eight-year career, she won the WNBA Finals four times (2011, 2013, 2015, 2017) and was named the Finals MVP in 2013.
The Wings scored a game high thirty-one points in the fourth quarter to win that quarter 31–24. The Wings won Game 2 by twenty-seven points to take the series 2–0. The Wings had a WNBA Playoff record seven players score double-digits and were led by Arike Ogunbowale who scored twenty points.
The Aces finished with a 34–6 regular season record, which was a franchise and WNBA record for number of wins. [1] This was also the first season where the WNBA played 40 games. Their .850 winning percentage was a franchise record but not a WNBA record. The Aces finished as the first seed for the playoffs.
The eight teams with the best regular season records, regardless of conference, qualify for the WNBA playoffs to determine the league's champion in the WNBA Finals. Since 2022, the playoffs have used a best-of-three series in the first round, where teams are seeded based on regular season performance, and a best-of-five format for the ...
Reese entered Sunday's game averaging 13.6 points, a WNBA-best 12.6 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.3 steals per game. Sunday's 22-rebound effort upped that league-best rate to 12.9 per game.
Updated September 20, 2024 at 12:14 AM. This story was updated to add new information. ... The 2023 WNBA Rookie of the Year award winner missed the playoffs last season.
As a result, all eight playoff teams, seeded according to overall regular season record regardless of conference (1 vs. 8, 2 vs. 7, 3 vs. 6, 4 vs. 5), will begin postseason play in the first round. Since 2016 , seeds 3 and 4 received a bye to the second round (single game) and seeds 1 and 2 received a bye to the semifinals (best-of-5).