{"id":170306,"date":"2025-09-20T19:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170306\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T19:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:42:06","slug":"naz-hillmon-makes-history-as-the-atlanta-dreams-first-sixth-person-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170306\/","title":{"rendered":"Naz Hillmon makes history as the Atlanta Dream\u2019s first Sixth Person of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Atlanta forward Naz Hillmon was named the WNBA\u2019s Sixth Person of the Year on Saturday, making her\u2026<\/p>\n<p>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Atlanta forward Naz Hillmon was named the WNBA\u2019s Sixth Person of the Year on Saturday, making her the first Dream player in franchise history to win the award.<\/p>\n<p>Hillmon averaged 8.6 points and 6.2 rebounds for the Dream and made 53 3-pointers after hitting just one across her first three WNBA seasons.<\/p>\n<p>She came off the bench in 27 of the Dream\u2019s 44 games and set a franchise record by appearing in 150 consecutive contests.<\/p>\n<p>Hillmon, who played college basketball at Michigan, was second in the league in plus-minus (+7.6 per game) and helped Atlanta earn the No. 3 seed and win a franchise-record 30 games in its 17th season.<\/p>\n<p>She won the AP <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/awards-wnba-aja-wilson-37423c20f47119348fb7a86d0403cd03\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sixth Woman of the Year award<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP WNBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright<br \/>\n                        \u00a9\u00a02025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Atlanta forward Naz Hillmon was named the WNBA\u2019s Sixth Person of the Year on Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-170306","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\/170306","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=170306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}