{"id":7913,"date":"2025-07-14T01:14:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T01:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7913\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T01:14:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T01:14:03","slug":"alaskas-alissa-pili-waived-by-wnbas-minnesota-lynx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7913\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska\u2019s Alissa Pili waived by WNBA\u2019s Minnesota Lynx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MO4DANXFJGNZPU3SLGJZ235YGE.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"548\"\/>Dallas Wings guard Kaila Charles (3) fights Minnesota Lynx forward Alissa Pili, front right, for the ball in the second half of a WNBA basketball game Friday, May 16, 2025, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo\/Richard W. Rodriguez) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alaska\u2019s Alissa Pili, who starred in the state as a high school player at Dimond High, was <a href=\"https:\/\/lynx.wnba.com\/news\/lynx-waive-forward-alissa-pili\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/lynx.wnba.com\/news\/lynx-waive-forward-alissa-pili\">waived by the WNBA\u2019s Minnesota Lynx on Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pili, who played collegiately at USC and the University of Utah, was drafted with the eighth pick in the first round by the Lynx in the 2024 draft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pili had played sparingly in her second season in the league. She logged just five total minutes in the team\u2019s seven games so far in July. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On the season, Pili averaged 1.9 points on 45.5% shooting and 1.2 rebounds in 5.5 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For her career, Pili averaged 2.2 points per game over 36 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Wings guard Kaila Charles (3) fights Minnesota Lynx forward Alissa Pili, front right, for the ball in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-7913","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\/7913","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=7913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}