The Dallas Wings are not having an incredible season by any means, but Wings\u2019 rookie JJ Quinerly has already made a little bit of history in the WNBA \u2013 now, she\u2019s pushing to do so once again.<\/p>\n
Earlier this season, the former WVU women\u2019s basketball star became<\/a> the first third-round WNBA Draft selection since 1999 to score 15 or more points in three consecutive games as a rookie. She did so in impressive fashion, as she pulled off the achievement amidst a streak of six double-digit scoring performances.<\/p>\n But Quinerly now has the opportunity to make history across an entire season, as she is sitting in position to become just the tenth WNBA third-round selection to average five or more points per game<\/a> as a rookie across the course of the year. With just under two months remaining in the regular season, Quinerly is ahead of pace to hit that mark, averaging 6.7 points per game in 26 appearances and 11 starts for the Wings. She\u2019s also averaging 2.3 assists and 1.9 rebounds while playing 15.3 minutes per game.<\/p>\n Quinerly managed to tally five points, two assists, and two rebounds in her latest outing as the Wings fell to the Atlanta Dream 88-85. During a recent press conference, Mark Kellogg \u2013 Quinerly\u2019s college coach for two seasons at WVU \u2013 took a minute to praise<\/a> Quinerly\u2019s strong start to her professional career.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cJJ Quinerly is off to a good start,\u201d Kellogg said. \u201cShe\u2019s getting some love there and starting to play well and starting in the WNBA, and we\u2019re super proud of her.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Wings are not having an incredible season by any means, but Wings\u2019 rookie JJ Quinerly has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-51954","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\/51954","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=51954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}