In the final month of the calendar year, music streaming platforms have begun releasing their year-end recaps, tracking what people have been listening to throughout the year. In the basketball world, Ballhalla has followed the Valkyries on a 44-game journey, watching them win 23 times and make WNBA history as the first-ever expansion team to make the playoffs. Let\u2019s take a look back at this calendar year in Valkyries basketball and see where your favorite players stack up among the highest performers in the following major statistical categories.<\/p>\n
Most minutes played (total minutes)<\/p>\n
Most points scored (total points)<\/p>\n
Most rebounds (total rebounds)<\/p>\n
Most assists (total assists)<\/p>\n
Most steals (total assists)<\/p>\n
Most blocks (total blocks)<\/p>\n
Most 3-pointers (total threes)<\/p>\n
Highest plus-minus (total plus-minus)<\/p>\n
Awards\/Accolades
WNBA All-Star (Kayla Thornton)
WNBA Most Improved Player (Veronica Burton)
WNBA Coach of the Year (Natalie Nakase)
All-Rookie First Team (Janelle Sala\u00fcn)
All-Defensive Second Team (Veronica Burton)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the final month of the calendar year, music streaming platforms have begun releasing their year-end recaps, tracking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-353047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353047","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=353047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}