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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 2023 WNBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the WNBA's 2023 season.The playoffs began on September 13, 2023, and culminated with the Las Vegas Aces successfully defending their WNBA title by defeating the New York Liberty three games to one in the finals.
Only player to record 15 points, 15 rebounds, 5 assists and 5 blocks Candace Parker posted 19 points, 18 rebounds, 5 assists, 6 blocks and 4 steals vs Connecticut Sun in August 2022 [ 6 ] Most blocks in a quarter, game
[17] [18] Three current WNBA teams have yet to win a championship; among them, the Connecticut Sun has finished as runners-up in four WNBA Finals. [19] The best regular season performance in league history was set in the 1998 season by the Houston Comets, who finished with a 27–3 win–loss record—a winning percentage of 0.900. The number ...
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.
Ionescu's 37-point final round was the highest-scoring round by a WNBA or NBA player – the previous WNBA record was 30, which Allie Quigley set in Chicago in 2022, while the previous NBA record was 31, which Stephen Curry set in Atlanta in 2021 and which Tyrese Haliburton equaled in Salt Lake City in 2023. [18]
The 2023 WNBA Finals, officially the WNBA Finals 2023 presented by YouTube TV for sponsorship reasons, was the best-of-five championship series for the 2023 season of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The finals featured the first-seeded Las Vegas Aces facing off against the second-seeded New York Liberty.