{"id":916808,"date":"2026-10-01T17:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916808\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T17:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:06:09","slug":"shakira-austin-narrowly-loses-the-2026-wnba-most-improved-player-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916808\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakira Austin narrowly loses the 2026 WNBA Most Improved Player award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">That said, Washington Mystics center Shakira Austin was the runner up with 25 votes. She averaged a career high 17 points, 9.5 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game. Austin did not make the All-Star team this season, but was the Mystics\u2019 leading scorer in points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">While not seeing Austin win a league wide honor stings a little, I am still very happy with how this season has gone for the Mystics. Hopefully Austin gets an All-Star honor in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That said, Washington Mystics center Shakira Austin was the runner up with 25 votes. She averaged a career&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,737,630],"class_list":["post-916808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-washington-mystics","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916808","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=916808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}