{"id":154479,"date":"2025-09-13T18:41:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T18:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/154479\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T18:41:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T18:41:03","slug":"kiki-iriafens-rookie-season-is-unprecedented-in-mystics-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/154479\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiki Iriafen\u2019s rookie season is unprecedented in Mystics history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Earlier today, I wrote about Washington Mystics guard<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bulletsforever.com\/mystics-player-analysis\/65225\/sonia-citron-washington-mystics-wnba-rookie-records\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Sonia Citron\u2019s accomplishments<\/a> in her rookie season. But she wasn\u2019t the only rookie to turn heads. Mystics forward Kiki Iriafen is another. She also made the AP WNBA All-Rookie team in her own right. She will also likely make the All-WNBA Rookie team itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here are some reasons why Iriafen\u2019s 2025 season in Washington is one to remember on its own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Both Iriafen and Citron had very strong rookie seasons in 2025. Hopefully, we will see both of them repeat such performances in 2026 and help Washington improve in the standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier today, I wrote about Washington Mystics guard Sonia Citron\u2019s accomplishments in her rookie season. But she wasn\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,8253,94723,434],"class_list":["post-154479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-washington-mystics","tag-washington-mystics-player-analysis","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154479","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=154479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}