{"id":104600,"date":"2025-08-29T03:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/104600\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T03:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:58:10","slug":"mercurys-alyssa-thomas-makes-history-as-first-player-with-three-300-assist-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/104600\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury&#8217;s Alyssa Thomas makes history as first player with three 300-assist seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alyssa Thomas is on a record-breaking roll.<\/p>\n<p>With her first helper in the <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"phoenix-mercury\" data-league=\"wnba\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/phoenix-mercury\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Phoenix Mercury<\/a>&#8216;s Thursday night match against the <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"chicago-sky\" data-league=\"wnba\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/chicago-sky\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Chicago Sky<\/a>, Thomas became the first WNBA player to tally three 300-assist seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas has reached the milestone in three consecutive years, after recording 316 assists in 2023 and 317 in 2024. <\/p>\n<p>But this isn&#8217;t the only record the veteran forward has decimated this week. In her last game against the Los Angeles Sparks, Thomas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/wnba\/article\/thomas-sets-wnba-single-season-record-with-7-triple-doubles-as-mercury-beat-sparks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">broke her own record<\/a> of six triple-doubles in a season that she had set in 2023. That same game, the 33-year-old also became the first player in WNBA history to post at least 10 points, 15 rebounds and 15 assists in a game that she finished with 12 points, 16 rebounds, 15 assists and three steals.<\/p>\n<p>With her performance on Tuesday, the Mercury star also became the first player in WNBA history to total 31 or more assists in a two-game span.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas is averaging 15.9 points, 9.0 rebounds, 9.3 assists, and 1.6 steals in her 11th season in the league. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alyssa Thomas is on a record-breaking roll. With her first helper in the Phoenix Mercury&#8216;s Thursday night match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-104600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}