{"id":22694,"date":"2014-08-27T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/shocks-diggins-named-most-improved-player\/"},"modified":"2014-08-27T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T10:32:00","slug":"shocks-diggins-named-most-improved-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/shocks-diggins-named-most-improved-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock&#8217;s Diggins named Most Improved Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Tulsa Shock guard Skylar Diggins was named the WNBA&#8217;s Most Improved Player for the 2014 season, the league announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Diggins received 29 of the 38 votes from a panel of national and local sportswriters and broadcasters.<\/p>\n<p>The Notre Dame product&#8217;s scoring average went from 8.5 points per game as a rookie last year to 20.1 in 34 games this season. She also raised her field goal percentage from 32.8 to 42.3 while averaging 5.0 assists, 2.5 rebounds and 1.5 steals.<\/p>\n<p>Washington center Emma Meesseman, Tulsa center Courtney Paris and Chicago guard Allie Quigley each finished with two votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Tulsa Shock guard Skylar Diggins was named the WNBA&#8217;s Most Improved Player for the 2014 season, the league announced Wednesday. Diggins received 29 of the 38 votes from a panel of national and local sportswriters and broadcasters. The Notre Dame product&#8217;s scoring average went from 8.5 points per game as [&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-22694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22694","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=22694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}