{"id":78943,"date":"2026-09-20T18:54:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T23:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/lynxs-olivia-miles-breaks-caitlin-clarks-wnba-rookie-scoring-record\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T18:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T23:54:52","slug":"lynxs-olivia-miles-breaks-caitlin-clarks-wnba-rookie-scoring-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/lynxs-olivia-miles-breaks-caitlin-clarks-wnba-rookie-scoring-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynx\u2019s Olivia Miles breaks Caitlin Clark\u2019s WNBA rookie scoring record"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Guard was named an All-Star in first WNBA season<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Miles has broken several records in first campaign<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/18\/olivia-miles-the-goggled-wonder-woman-pulverizing-opponents-in-her-rookie-season\">Olivia Miles<\/a> broke Caitlin Clark\u2019s WNBA rookie scoring record on Sunday in the Minnesota Lynx\u2019s 101-89 victory over the Connecticut Sun.<\/p>\n<p>Miles, who finished with 21 points, was tied with Clark at 769 points coming into the game and moved to the top of 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 is a big reason the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/sep\/16\/wnba-playoffs-minnesota-lynx-olivia-miles\">team have the best record in the WNBA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/sep\/20\/lynxs-olivia-miles-breaks-caitlin-clarks-wnba-rookie-scoring-record\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guard was named an All-Star in first WNBA season Miles has broken several records in first campaign Olivia Miles broke Caitlin Clark\u2019s WNBA rookie scoring record on Sunday in the Minnesota Lynx\u2019s 101-89 victory over the Connecticut Sun. Miles, who finished with 21 points, was tied with Clark at 769 points coming into the game &#8230; <a title=\"Lynx\u2019s Olivia Miles breaks Caitlin Clark\u2019s WNBA rookie scoring record\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/lynxs-olivia-miles-breaks-caitlin-clarks-wnba-rookie-scoring-record\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lynx\u2019s Olivia Miles breaks Caitlin Clark\u2019s WNBA rookie scoring record\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}