{"id":854667,"date":"2026-09-20T20:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T20:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/854667\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T20:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T20:10:09","slug":"olivia-miles-breaks-caitlin-clarks-wnba-rookie-points-record-by-scoring-770th-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/854667\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Miles breaks Caitlin Clark&#8217;s WNBA rookie points record by scoring 770th point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNCASVILLE, Conn. \u2014 Olivia Miles broke Caitlin Clark&#8217;s WNBA record for points by a rookie in a season on Sunday in the Minnesota Lynx&#8217;s game against the Connecticut Sun.<\/p>\n<p>Miles was tied with Clark with 769 points coming into the game and moved atop the list when she made a free throw in the second quarter. The Lynx rookie came into the game averaging 19.7 points, 6.0 assists and 4.7 rebounds, and was a big reason the team had the best record in the WNBA.<\/p>\n<p>Miles, who was selected second overall in the draft after playing at Notre Dame and TCU, got off to a slow start against the Sun, going scoreless in the first quarter before getting going in the second. Her record-breaking free throw came 29 seconds into the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Miles and Clark both accomplished their feats in 40 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNCASVILLE, Conn. \u2014 Olivia Miles broke Caitlin Clark&#8217;s WNBA record for points by a rookie in a season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[1077,99,9815,434],"class_list":["post-854667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-sports","tag-wires-bot","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854667","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=854667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}