{"id":9748,"date":"2025-07-14T18:52:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/9748\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T18:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:52:05","slug":"nakase-named-wnba-coach-of-the-month-for-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/9748\/","title":{"rendered":"Nakase Named WNBA Coach of the Month for June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"358\" data-attachment-id=\"312187\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rafu.com\/2025\/07\/nakase-named-wnba-coach-of-the-month-for-june\/natalie-nakase-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rafu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/natalie-nakase.png?fit=1022%2C469&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1022,469\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"natalie nakase\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rafu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/natalie-nakase.png?fit=300%2C138&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rafu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/natalie-nakase.png?fit=550%2C252&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/natalie-nakase.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-312187\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">The WNBA announced July 3 that Golden State Valkyries head coach Natalie Nakase has been named the WNBA Coach of the Month for June.<\/p>\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">The Valkyries went 7-4 ( .636) during the month of June, which included three wins by 24 points or more, and wrapped up the month winning four of their last five.<\/p>\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">Golden State averaged a 46.1 field goal percentage to go with 82.1 points, 47.5 rebounds and 18.7 assists per game, while holding opponents to 75.1 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">The Valkyries became the first WNBA team this season to have five players in double figures for three straight games (June 5 at Phoenix, June 7 vs. Las Vegas, and June 9 at Los Angeles). The team\u2019s +6.9 plus\/minus in June was the second-highest in the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">This is Nakase\u2019s first WNBA Coach of tl1e Month honor, which she earned in just her second month as a first-year head coach.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tArticles for you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WNBA announced July 3 that Golden State Valkyries head coach Natalie Nakase has been named the WNBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-9748","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\/9748","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=9748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}