{"id":137676,"date":"2025-09-06T18:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/137676\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:45:07","slug":"alyssa-thomas-regains-wnba-single-season-assist-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/137676\/","title":{"rendered":"Alyssa Thomas regains WNBA single-season assist record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNCASVILLE, Conn. &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"908608e9-31d4-62f2-dfe2-9fee9024e7e2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/2529140\/alyssa-thomas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alyssa Thomas<\/a> took back the WNBA single-season assist record, topping <a data-player-guid=\"5ec40e1c-3104-322e-b80f-f358ea26aad4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/4433403\/caitlin-clark\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlin Clark<\/a>&#8216;s mark of 337 set last season.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas needed six assists coming into Saturday&#8217;s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/con\/connecticut-sun\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connecticut Sun<\/a>, for whom she starred for so many years before leaving for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/phx\/phoenix-mercury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Mercury<\/a> this season as a free agent. She got the record-breaking assist on a 3-pointer by <a data-player-guid=\"88a6db01-ac2d-1bf1-a570-17cf797cc788\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/3142087\/kathryn-westbeld\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kathryn Westbeld<\/a> in the corner with 4:45 left in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas first set the record in 2023 with 316 assists when she played for Connecticut. Clark broke it a year later as a rookie. Now the 33-year-old Thomas, who also holds the WNBA record for triple-doubles in a season and career, has it back again. She needed only 37 games to reclaim the mark.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s most impressive about Thomas&#8217; accomplishment is that she has done it from the forward position. Ever since her time with the Sun, Thomas has been a point-forward. Many of her assists this year have come on 3-pointers with nearly half of them coming on shots from behind the arc.<\/p>\n<p>She is seventh on the WNBA career assist list with more than 1,800 assists &#8212; the only forward in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas has averaged a career-best 9.2 assists per game this season, which is short of <a data-player-guid=\"1d736065-2a2f-60b2-c21d-d1ccb82836a0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/981\/courtney-vandersloot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Courtney Vandersloot<\/a>&#8216;s record of 9.95 set in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNCASVILLE, Conn. &#8212; Alyssa Thomas took back the WNBA single-season assist record, topping Caitlin Clark&#8216;s mark of 337&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-137676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}