{"id":865105,"date":"2026-09-29T20:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T20:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/865105\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T20:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T20:36:18","slug":"no-mystics-players-or-coaches-win-ap-wnba-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/865105\/","title":{"rendered":"No Mystics players or coaches win AP WNBA Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press <a data-ylk=\"slk:released their WNBA awards yesterday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;released their WNBA awards yesterday&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/angel-reese-aja-wilson-womens-national-basketball-association-f3c6fff387eafec8516b575b365f2899\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">released their WNBA awards yesterday<\/a>. The headliners included <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/wnba\/teams\/las-vegas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Aces<\/a> star A&#8217;ja Wilson winning Player of the Year and <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/wnba\/teams\/minnesota\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Lynx<\/a> head coach Cheryl Reeve winning Coach of the Year. The bigger shock, at least in my opinion, is that no one form the <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/wnba\/teams\/washington\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Mystics<\/a> won any award on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Mystics head coach Sydney Johnson is widely expected to be in the running for WNBA Coach of the Year after leading Washington to a 28-16 record with the league&#8217;s youngest roster. In addition, one could make a case for <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/wnba\/players\/6692\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shakira Austin<\/a>, <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/wnba\/players\/10211\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kiki Iriafen<\/a>, and\/or <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/wnba\/players\/10209\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sonia Citron<\/a> to make the All-AP WNBA Second Team. However, none made it.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the lack of Mystics players winning AP awards, the official WNBA awards will come out soon. And of course, the Mystics still have a playoff game to play tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Associated Press released their WNBA awards yesterday. The headliners included Las Vegas Aces star A&#8217;ja Wilson winning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[3444,5949,1077,99,60427,8253,434],"class_list":["post-865105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-cheryl-reeve","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-sports","tag-sydney-johnson","tag-washington-mystics","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865105","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=865105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}