{"id":21968,"date":"2014-08-11T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/griner-quigley-named-wnba-players-of-week\/"},"modified":"2014-08-11T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T17:55:00","slug":"griner-quigley-named-wnba-players-of-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/griner-quigley-named-wnba-players-of-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Griner, Quigley named WNBA Players of Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Brittney Griner of the Phoenix Mercury and Allie Quigley of the Chicago Sky were named the WNBA&#8217;s Players of the Week on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Griner won the Western Conference honor for a second time this season, ending a four-week run for Minnesota Lynx forward Maya Moore. Griner had a block at the buzzer to help the Mercury beat Moore&#8217;s Lynx on Saturday in a showdown between the league&#8217;s best two teams.<\/p>\n<p>Griner averaged 15.0 points, 9.3 rebounds and 5.3 blocks during the week and also broke the WNBA single-season mark of 114 blocks set by Margo Dydek in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Quigley received the award for the first time after leading the Eastern Conference with 18.0 points over a three-game stretch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Brittney Griner of the Phoenix Mercury and Allie Quigley of the Chicago Sky were named the WNBA&#8217;s Players of the Week on Monday. Griner won the Western Conference honor for a second time this season, ending a four-week run for Minnesota Lynx forward Maya Moore. Griner had a block at [&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-21968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21968","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=21968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}