{"id":90189,"date":"2025-08-23T02:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T02:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/90189\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T02:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T02:38:06","slug":"jessica-shepard-records-fastest-triple-double-in-wnba-history-as-lynx-beat-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/90189\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Shepard records fastest triple-double in WNBA history as Lynx beat Fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Kayla McBride scored 29 points, Jessica Shepard got the\u00a0second triple-double\u00a0in franchise history, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/minnesota-lynx\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"minnesota-lynx\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Minnesota Lynx<\/a> beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/indiana-fever\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"indiana-fever\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indiana Fever<\/a> 95-90 on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Lynx (29-7) snapped a two-game losing streak and are 7-3 in their last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Shepard finished with 22 points, 11 rebounds, and 11 assists on 10-for-11 shooting while playing all 40 minutes. She joined Moriah Jefferson as the only Lynx players to record triple-doubles in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>She completed her triple in just 21:57 of action, the fastest in WNBA history. Previously, the record was set by\u00a0Seattle\u2019s Skylar Diggins on July 28,\u00a0at 22:51 of play.<\/p>\n<p>McBride added five assists, and was 10-for-19 from the field. Natisha Hiedeman had 17 points in 26 minutes off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey Mitchell scored 27 points to lead Indiana (19-17), and Lexie Hull had\u00a0a career-high 23.<\/p>\n<p>Shepard had a double-double at the half with 11 points, 10 assists, and nine rebounds. Minnesota took the lead for good off Shepard&#8217;s driving layup early in the third quarter, and outscored the Fever 32-17 in the period.<\/p>\n<p>With four minutes remaining in the game, Indiana went on a 10-4 run, but their comeback came up just short.<\/p>\n<p>Shey Peddy started off her Fever career with\u00a0three straight three-pointers\u00a0after joining the team on a seven-day hardship contract on Wednesday. She finished with 10 points in 16 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Caitlin Clark missed her 14th straight game with a right groin injury.<\/p>\n<p>The teams last met in the Commissioner&#8217;s Cup championship on July 1, a 74-59 Indiana victory.<\/p>\n<p>Lynx host the Fever in the second game of a home-and-home on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Kayla McBride scored 29 points, Jessica Shepard got the\u00a0second triple-double\u00a0in franchise history, and the Minnesota Lynx&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-90189","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\/90189","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=90189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}