{"id":660715,"date":"2026-05-23T16:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/660715\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T16:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:16:07","slug":"mystics-lauren-betts-is-still-learning-as-a-wnba-rookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/660715\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystics&#8217; Lauren Betts is still learning as a WNBA rookie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"22DBIOIDSRHFZL6ARE25QZ2VZI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Lauren Betts finally got to unpack.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"LAUBHOS7QREKVEXBQEPA6W3ZQA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The 6-foot-7 rookie\u2019s boxes of belongings from Los Angeles have arrived, nearly six weeks after the Washington Mystics chose her with the No. 4 pick in the WNBA draft. It\u2019s been a whirlwind couple of months for Betts, who led UCLA to its first NCAA championship April 5, was drafted by the Mystics April 13, opened training camp April 19 and made her WNBA debut May 8. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lauren Betts finally got to unpack. The 6-foot-7 rookie\u2019s boxes of belongings from Los Angeles have arrived, nearly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-660715","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\/660715","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=660715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}