{"id":125175,"date":"2025-09-06T22:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T22:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/125175\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T22:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T22:01:07","slug":"mercurys-alyssa-thomas-retakes-a-wnba-record-formerly-held-by-caitlin-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/125175\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury&#8217;s Alyssa Thomas Retakes a WNBA Record Formerly Held By Caitlin Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_39yigysjx\">Fever guard Caitlin Clark turned heads with a record-breaking 337-assist season in 2024\u2014but real guard-play enthusiasts knew she was just keeping the seat warm for Mercury forward <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/espnW\/status\/1964431962099134879?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Alyssa Thomas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_4e507r5ke\">Thomas held the WNBA&#8217;s single-season assists record before the &#8217;24 season with 316 in 2023, recorded 317 in &#8217;24, and has now given out 342 in 2025 after a 10-assist game against the Sun Saturday, retaking the record for her own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_zy0houh76\">Her performance in Phoenix&#8217;s 87\u201384 loss raised her season average to 9.24 assists per game\u2014the second-highest all-time behind Sky guard Courtney Vandersloot. Thomas was named to her sixth All-Star team this past season, and has finished in the top five of the MVP voting each of the last three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_9h5azqlc8\">Clark, <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/caitlin-clark-disappointing-injury-update-out-for-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">badly affected by injuries in &#8217;25<\/a>, settled for 115 assists\u2014about 8.8 per game. That would trail only Thomas if sustained over a full season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_97n868i5q\">The moral of the story: there&#8217;s never been a better time to give out assists in the WNBA.<\/p>\n<p>More WNBA on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fever guard Caitlin Clark turned heads with a record-breaking 337-assist season in 2024\u2014but real guard-play enthusiasts knew she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-125175","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\/125175","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=125175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}