{"id":449443,"date":"2026-09-27T17:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T17:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/449443\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T17:08:08","slug":"bueckers-2nd-team-all-wnba-shepard-mip-in-end-of-season-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/449443\/","title":{"rendered":"Bueckers 2nd team All-WNBA, Shepard MIP in end-of-season honors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Dallas Wings<\/a> had multiple players garner awards from AP’s end-of-season WNBA honors, most notably their star players Paige Bueckers and Jessica Shepard.<\/p>\n

Bueckers was named second-team All-WNBA for the second straight season while Shepard was named the league’s most improved player. Wings rookie Azzi Fudd was also named to the All-Rookie team.<\/p>\n

Shepard was a breakout star<\/a> in her first season with the Wings. Starting in all 42 of the team’s regular-season games, Shepard averaged a double-double with 14.5 points and 11.1 rebounds per game. That’s up from eight and 7.3 in those categories last season, respectively, which helped her earn her first All-Star nod as well.<\/p>\n

Fudd makes the All-Rookie list despite having her first pro season cut short due to knee surgery<\/a>. In 30 games, the 2026 top pick averaged 13.1 points per game. Former TCU star Olivia Miles took the Rookie of the Year award.<\/p>\n

Check out the full list of AP’s WNBA honors below.<\/p>\n

Player of the Year: A\u2019ja Wilson \u2014 Las Vegas Aces<\/p>\n

Defensive Player of the Year: Angel Reese \u2014 Atlanta Dream<\/p>\n

Rookie of the Year: Olivia Miles \u2014 Minnesota Lynx<\/p>\n

Comeback Player of the Year: Caitlin Clark \u2014 Indiana Fever<\/p>\n

Most Improved Player:\u00a0Jessica\u00a0Shepard \u2014 Dallas Wings<\/p>\n

Sixth Woman of the Year: Janelle Sala\u00fcn \u2014 Golden State Valkyries<\/p>\n

Coach of the Year: Cheryl Reeve \u2014 Minnesota Lynx<\/p>\n

A\u2019ja Wilson \u2014 Las Vegas Aces<\/p>\n

Kelsey Mitchell \u2014 Indiana Fever<\/p>\n

Caitlin Clark \u2014 Indiana Fever<\/p>\n

Breanna Stewart \u2014 New York Liberty<\/p>\n

Olivia Miles \u2014 Minnesota Lynx<\/p>\n

Jackie Young \u2014 Las Vegas Aces<\/p>\n

Rhyne Howard \u2014 Atlanta Dream<\/p>\n

Paige\u00a0Bueckers \u2014 Dallas Wings<\/p>\n

Gabby Williams \u2014 Golden State\u00a0Valkyries<\/p>\n

Angel\u00a0Reese \u2014 Atlanta Dream<\/p>\n

Olivia Miles \u2014 Minnesota Lynx<\/p>\n

Azzi\u00a0Fudd \u2014 Dallas Wings<\/p>\n

Sydney Taylor \u2014 Chicago Sky<\/p>\n

Flau\u2019jae Johnson \u2014 Seattle Storm<\/p>\n

Pauline\u00a0Astier \u2014 New York Liberty<\/p>\n

Kiki Rice \u2014 Toronto Tempo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Dallas Wings had multiple players garner awards from AP’s end-of-season WNBA honors, most notably their star players Paige…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,88877,89478],"class_list":["post-449443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-tp-dallas-wings","tag-tp-paige-bueckers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}