{"id":871128,"date":"2026-08-25T17:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/871128\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T17:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:12:15","slug":"angel-reese-named-wnba-eastern-conference-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/871128\/","title":{"rendered":"ANGEL REESE NAMED WNBA EASTERN CONFERENCE PLAYER OF THE WEEK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Reese earns third career weekly honor after leading Atlanta to a\u00a0perfect 3-0 week on the\u00a0West Coast\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ATLANTA (August 25, 2026)\u2014\u00a0Atlanta Dream forward Angel Reese has been named WNBA Eastern Conference Player of the Week, the league announced today.\u00a0Reese was also named the AP Player of the Week yesterday.\u00a0The honor is Reese\u2019s first with Atlanta and third of her three-year WNBA career.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reese powered the Dream to a 3-0 week with wins over Las Vegas (Aug. 18), Los Angeles (Aug. 20)\u00a0and Phoenix (Aug. 22), averaging 24.0 points, 11.3 rebounds, 4.7 assists and 3.7 steals while shooting 67.4 percent from the field. She recorded\u00a0a double-double in all three games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The three-game run marked one of the most dominant stretches of Reese\u2019s career. After opening the week with her 24th double-double of the season against Las Vegas, she went a perfect 9-for-9 from the field against Los Angeles, setting a Dream franchise record for most made field goals without a miss. Reese also became the first player in WNBA history to record at least 20 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists while shooting 100 percent from the field. During the week, she also set the WNBA single-season offensive rebounds record and recorded her league-leading 25th double-double.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reese capped the week with a career-high 31 points and 14 rebounds in Atlanta\u2019s win at Phoenix. The performance marked her third consecutive game with at least 20 points and 10 rebounds and made her just the third player in WNBA history to record 20+ points, 10+ rebounds and 3+ steals in three straight games, joining A\u2019ja Wilson and Nneka Ogwumike. Reese finished the week with her league-leading 26th double-double of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reese becomes the second Dream player to earn Eastern Conference Player of the Week honors this season, joining USA Basketball World Cup teammate Rhyne Howard, and the 12th player in franchise history to receive the award.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reese continued her historic run following the award period, pulling down a WNBA-record\u00a026 rebounds Monday night against Los Angeles while surpassing Wilson\u2019s WNBA single-season rebounds record of 451. The victory completed Atlanta\u2019s first 4-0 road trip in franchise history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About the Atlanta Dream\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Established in 2008, the Atlanta Dream is the Southeast\u2019s only WNBA franchise, playing its home games at Gateway Center Arena @ College Park. This year the Dream will play six home games at State Farm Arena, continuing the organization\u2019s commitment to elevating the game on the biggest stages. Dream games are telecast locally on Atlanta News First (WANF-TV) and streamed on Victory+. Since 2009, the Dream has produced 13 WNBA All-Stars, earned 12 playoff\u00a0bids\u00a0and made three WNBA\u00a0finals\u00a0appearances. For more information about the Dream, visit<a href=\"https:\/\/dream.wnba.com\/tickets\/?&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dream.wnba.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">atlantadream.com<\/a>\u00a0and follow @AtlantaDream on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/atlantadream?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/atlantadream?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Instagram<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/atlantadream?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0X<\/a>\u00a0and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@atlantadream?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0TikTok<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reese earns third career weekly honor after leading Atlanta to a\u00a0perfect 3-0 week on the\u00a0West Coast\u00a0 ATLANTA (August&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-871128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871128","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=871128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}