{"id":12073,"date":"2025-06-25T00:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/12073\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T00:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:12:08","slug":"mystics-shakira-austin-secures-wnba-player-of-the-week-honor-9th-athlete-in-team-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/12073\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystics&#8217; Shakira Austin secures WNBA player of the week honor, 9th athlete in team history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (7News) \u2014 Washington Mystics center Shakira Austin is the Women&#8217;s National Basketball Association&#8217;s (WNBA) Eastern Conference Player of the Week for games played between June 16 to 22, the team announced on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>This is Austin&#8217;s first career player of the week, making her the ninth player in the franchise&#8217;s history to earn the recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Austin averaged  19.3 points, 8.7 rebounds, and 2.3 assists, and two steals during that week, according to team stats. <\/p>\n<p>She hit a career high of 28 points, with 10 rebounds, three assists, and three steals against the Atlanta Dream, despite the Mystics&#8217; 1-point loss against them on June 20.<\/p>\n<p>The last Mystic to earn Player of the Week was Elena Delle Donne in July 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The Mystics host the Minnesota Lynx on Tuesday at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (7News) \u2014 Washington Mystics center Shakira Austin is the Women&#8217;s National Basketball Association&#8217;s (WNBA) Eastern Conference Player&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[12797,1518,12798,1519,12796,12795,62,67,132,68,1514,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-12073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-career-high","9":"tag-eastern-conference","10":"tag-elena-delle-donne","11":"tag-minnesota-lynx","12":"tag-player-of-the-week","13":"tag-shakira-austin","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-washington-mystics","19":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114741113309230413","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}