{"id":862705,"date":"2026-09-27T18:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/862705\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:28:11","slug":"skys-sydney-taylor-named-to-ap-all-rookie-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/862705\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky\u2019s Sydney Taylor named to AP All-Rookie team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney Taylor has her first major award under her belt. The <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/chicago-sky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sky<\/a> guard was named to the AP All-Rookie Team on Sunday, joining AP Rookie of the Year Olivia Miles, the Wings\u2019 Azzi Fudd, the Storm\u2019s Flau\u2019jae Johnson, the Liberty\u2019s Pauline Astier, and the Tempo\u2019s Kiki Rice.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor averaged 13.6 points and 2 assists in 37 games this season. Once she moved into the starting rotation, her scoring jumped to 15.4 points.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor was one of the big break-out stories of the year as she went undrafted out of college and had played the previous two years overseas. Now a much bigger profile and payday are coming.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor will be a reserved free agent this offseason, meaning she can only negotiate with the Sky. She told the Sun-Times that she\u2019s interested in signing a multi-year deal with the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Taylor has her first major award under her belt. The Sky guard was named to the AP&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-862705","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\/862705","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=862705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}