{"id":19731,"date":"2014-06-16T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/diggins-bentley-named-wnba-players-of-the-week\/"},"modified":"2014-06-17T01:10:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T01:10:25","slug":"diggins-bentley-named-wnba-players-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/diggins-bentley-named-wnba-players-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Diggins, Bentley named WNBA Players of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Skylar Diggins of the Tulsa Shock and Alex Bentley of the Connecticut Sun were named the WNBA&#8217;s Western and Eastern Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for games played from June 9-15.<\/p>\n<p>Diggins paced the Western Conference in scoring (23 ppg) and minutes (35.9 mpg) while leading Tulsa to a 3-0 mark last week. On the season, Diggins ranks fourth in the WNBA in both scoring (19.2 ppg) and assists (5.7 apg).<\/p>\n<p>Bentley guided the Sun to a 3-0 record as well after averaging 19.3 points for the week. The former Penn State star ranks 13th in the Eastern Conference in scoring (11.2 ppg), fourth in 3-point field goal percentage (.458) and seventh in assists (3.3 apg).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Skylar Diggins of the Tulsa Shock and Alex Bentley of the Connecticut Sun were named the WNBA&#8217;s Western and Eastern Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for games played from June 9-15. Diggins paced the Western Conference in scoring (23 ppg) and minutes (35.9 mpg) while leading Tulsa to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19732,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19731\/revisions\/19732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}