{"id":20256,"date":"2014-06-30T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/ogwumike-lyttle-named-wnba-players-of-the-week\/"},"modified":"2014-06-30T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T18:29:00","slug":"ogwumike-lyttle-named-wnba-players-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/ogwumike-lyttle-named-wnba-players-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Ogwumike, Lyttle named WNBA Players of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Los Angeles Sparks forward Nneka Ogwumike and Atlanta Dream forward Sancho Lyttle were selected as the WNBA&#8217;s Players of the Week for the period from June 24-29.<\/p>\n<p>Ogwumike captured her third career Western Conference Player of the Week award after averaging 21 points and nine rebounds in a pair of Sparks&#8217; wins. The 2012 No. 1 overall pick shot 63 percent from the field over the two games, highlighted by a 20-point, 11-rebound effort against Seattle on June 24.<\/p>\n<p>Lyttle also took home Eastern Conference weekly honors for the third time in her career. The veteran forward averaged 16 points and nine rebounds to help the Dream to a 2-0 week and currently ranks second in the league with an average of 2.6 steals per game.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the Dream has won the East award in each of the last two weeks, with Angel McCoughtry receiving the honor for games played from June 17-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Los Angeles Sparks forward Nneka Ogwumike and Atlanta Dream forward Sancho Lyttle were selected as the WNBA&#8217;s Players of the Week for the period from June 24-29. Ogwumike captured her third career Western Conference Player of the Week award after averaging 21 points and nine rebounds in a pair of [&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-20256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20256","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=20256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}