{"id":178678,"date":"2025-09-24T14:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/178678\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:05:07","slug":"unrivaled-announces-4-of-wnbas-best-guards-will-play-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/178678\/","title":{"rendered":"Unrivaled announces 4 of WNBA\u2019s best guards will play next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/unrivaled-womens-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unrivaled<\/a> is heading into its second season, and so far, 12 players have been revealed to be playing in the offseason 3-on-3 professional women\u2019s basketball league in Miami, which tips off in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Tuesday, the league shared the names of six players who will be playing \u2014 four returners and two new additions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Stewart, one of the league\u2019s co-founders, averaged 18.3 points, 6.5 rebounds, and 3.5 assists last season. She missed some time with a knee injury, but was the Liberty\u2019s most impactful player in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hull is in the midst of a big playoff run with the Fever; this season, she averaged 7.2 points and 4.3 rebounds, appearing in all 44 of Indiana\u2019s games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Stevens was one of the league\u2019s most improved players this season, averaging 12.8 points and 8 rebounds while shooting 47.8% from the field, nearly 8% better than last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Young was named an All-Star for the fourth time in her WNBA career, averaging 16.5 points and 5 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Citron was a candidate for Rookie of the Year, establishing herself as one of the league\u2019s most efficient guards in Year 1. She averaged 14.9 points and shot 44.5% from three, the best clip among high-volume guards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Burton was named the league\u2019s Most Improved Player, averaging 11.9 points and 6 assists in her first season with the Valkyries. She was Golden State\u2019s anchor on both ends, and quickly established herself as one of the league\u2019s best two-way guards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tuesday\u2019s announcements came after Unrivaled shared an initial batch of six participating players on Monday:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Roll-outs are expected to continue on Wednesday and throughout the rest of the year. In total, 48 players are participating in the league. But already, four of the league\u2019s best guards \u2014 Paige Bueckers, Sonia Citron, Veronica Burton, and Jackie Young \u2014 have been revealed as participating athletes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unrivaled is heading into its second season, and so far, 12 players have been revealed to be playing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-178678","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\/178678","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=178678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}