{"id":901537,"date":"2026-09-19T10:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/901537\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T10:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:02:10","slug":"kelsey-mitchell-speaks-out-after-making-wnba-history-with-indiana-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/901537\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelsey Mitchell speaks out after making WNBA history with Indiana Fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   <a class=\"fw\" href=\"https:\/\/profile.google.com\/cp\/Cg0vZy8xMWcxajNfc2h3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"28\" height=\"28\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hitc.com\/wp-content\/themes\/grv-media\/img\/google-discover.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> Follow us on Google Discover <\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Kelsey Mitchell made WNBA history when the Indiana Fever beat the Toronto Tempo on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Fever secured a 103-85 victory, with Mitchell and Caitlin Clark among the standout performers.<\/p>\n<p>Clark hit double figures for points and assists again, while Mitchell, after scoring 33 points against the Tempo, set a WNBA single-season scoring record by taking her total for 2026 up to 1,034 points.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey Mitchell responds to breaking WNBA points record<\/p>\n<p>Now, Mitchell has been quizzed on breaking that record in a post-game interview shared by Savanna Hamilton on X\/Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>A reporter asked: \u201cNow you\u2019re also making league history, too. So what does that mean to you to be one of those front faces now making that league history?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell responded: \u201cI don\u2019t think, like I said, it\u2019s still settling in. But I think about, I can\u2019t like, I think about all the times that I wasn\u2019t even supposed to be in these rooms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look back on my career and see what the Fever at one point, 6 and 27, 6 and 28. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so, a lot of what I\u2019ve been through, a lot of who I am. I\u2019m one of them stories where it\u2019s like I wasn\u2019t the person people was asking to do stuff, be a part of stuff. I wasn\u2019t on the records for anything, and so it took a lot of work to really be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019m one of them stories where it\u2019s like I wasn\u2019t the person people was asking to do stuff, be a part of stuff. I wasn\u2019t on the records for anything\u2026 and so it took a lot of work to really be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Kelsey Mitchell on the work behind her game, making WNBA history and being\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BqN3CSc2XO\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/BqN3CSc2XO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Savanna Hamilton (@SavHamilton11) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SavHamilton11\/status\/2101146135511379975?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">September 19, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen if Mitchell\u2019s point-scoring ability will be enough for her to clinch the MVP crown this year.<\/p>\n<p>She is facing stiff competition from a number of players, including her Fever teammate Clark and multi-time winner A\u2019ja Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>Join Our Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Receive exclusive football transfer news and updates twice a week to your mailbox<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"fw\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=hitc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"28\" height=\"28\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hitc.com\/wp-content\/themes\/grv-media\/img\/google-discover.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> Add to Preferred Sources <\/a>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Kelsey Mitchell made WNBA history when the Indiana Fever beat the Toronto Tempo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,2803,4650,82,630],"class_list":["post-901537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-indiana-fever","tag-kelsey-mitchell","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901537","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=901537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}