{"id":749698,"date":"2026-07-08T02:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/749698\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T02:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:53:17","slug":"howard-earns-fourth-wnba-all-star-nod-in-fifth-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/749698\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard earns fourth WNBA All-Star nod in fifth season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) &#8211; Former Kentucky star guard Rhyne Howard is headed back to the WNBA All-Star stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Howard, now with the Atlanta Dream, was named a 2026 WNBA All-Star reserve, the Dream announced Tuesday. The selection makes Howard a four-time All-Star in her fifth pro season, making her the 19th player in league history to reach four All-Star picks in five seasons.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wkyt.com\/page\/wkyt-apps-for-ios-and-android-devices\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"WKYT Streaming Apps\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783479197_893_MEPHTWNVMREWLEQQWWFJM27ZMA.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Howard entered Tuesday averaging 18.9 points, 3.8 rebounds and a league-leading 3.2 steals per game, while ranking second in the WNBA at 3.4 3-pointers made per game, according to the Dream. The 2026 AT&amp;T WNBA All-Star Game will be played July 25 at the United Center in Chicago at 8:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Howard played at Kentucky, where she scored 2,290 career points, second in program history, and was selected No. 1 overall in the 2022 WNBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WKYT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) &#8211; Former Kentucky star guard Rhyne Howard is headed back to the WNBA All-Star stage.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2649,3444,31437,569,19478,18118,99,570,434,2088],"class_list":["post-749698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-all-star","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-guard","tag-kentucky","tag-reserve","tag-rhyne-howard","tag-sports","tag-wildcats","tag-wnba","tag-womens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749698","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=749698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}