{"id":19928,"date":"2014-06-23T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mccoughtry-griner-named-wnba-players-of-the-week\/"},"modified":"2014-06-23T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T16:50:00","slug":"mccoughtry-griner-named-wnba-players-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mccoughtry-griner-named-wnba-players-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"McCoughtry, Griner named WNBA Players of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Angel McCoughtry of the Atlanta Dream and Brittney Griner of the Phoenix Mercury were named the WNBA&#8217;s Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for the period ending June 22.<\/p>\n<p>McCoughtry led Atlanta to a 2-1 mark behind a conference-best 26.0 ppg, keeping the Dream atop the Eastern Conference with a 9-4 record. She also supplied 7.3 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 2.7 steals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Griner earned her first weekly honor after ranking second in the Western Conference with 27.5 points and 11.0 rebounds per game. The former No. 1 pick led the West in field goal percentage (.767) and blocks (4.0).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Angel McCoughtry of the Atlanta Dream and Brittney Griner of the Phoenix Mercury were named the WNBA&#8217;s Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for the period ending June 22. McCoughtry led Atlanta to a 2-1 mark behind a conference-best 26.0 ppg, keeping the Dream atop the Eastern [&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-19928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19928","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=19928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}