Across the Timeline

Some updates on the Mystics rookie record books (per @acrossthetimeline.com):

Sonia Citron and Kiki Iriafen are 4th and 5th in total points. They're chasing 3 legends: Holdsclaw, McCray and Beard.

Iriafen is tied with Shakira Austin for 2nd in rebounds. Citron is 10th. @theixbasketball.bsky.social

Loyd's 7 made propelled the Aces to a new WNBA single-game record 12 made threes from reserves only.

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Jewell Loyd today had her 6th regular season WNBA game with 7 or more made threes.

Only Diana Taurasi (16) has had more in WNBA history.

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It's the 7th time a player has had 7+ off the bench in a WNBA game.

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The previous record on a back-to-back was 62 points, by two teams back in 2000.

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The Aces this weekend set a new WNBA record for largest game-to-game swing (back-to-back or not) in points margin.

August 2: lost by 53 to Minnesota
August 3: won by 24 over Golden State

That's a 77-point swing, "besting" Washington's mark of 70 back on June 8/15.

It was her 2nd against the Sky. She now has multiple against the Lynx, Aces, Sky, Liberty, Sparks and Fever.

No other WNBA player has more than one against any one franchise.

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Alyssa Thomas with her 17th triple-double (regular and postseason combined) today. A fitting number for the player whose first triple-double was the league's 17th, back in 2022.

There have now been 49 total, Thomas with over a third of them.

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Aces looking like they'll topple this: lost by 53 yesterday, currently winning by 25 (78-point game-to-game swing on consecutive days).

Disregarding the back-to-back, it'd also be a consecutive games record (Mystics set the current record earlier this season with a 70-point swing).

It's Boston's 15th regular season game w/ 15+ PTS, 10+ REB, and 60% or better shooting from the field.

In WNBA history, only Yolanda Griffith (18) had more through her 1st 3 seasons.

Boston ties Crystal Langhorne for most by a player before age 24.

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Including today's win over Seattle, Aliyah Boston's 6 consecutive double-doubles is a new Indiana Fever franchise record.

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Today's win was the 500th regular season win in New York Liberty history. They are the 4th franchise to reach that mark in the WNBA.

Los Angeles: 542 wins
Minnesota: 506
Connecticut(/Orlando): 504
New York: 500

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Sabrina Ionescu and Jonquel Jones are the 1st pair of WNBA teammates to each have 20+ PTS, 9+ REB, & 4+ AST shooting 60% or better from the field in the same game.

Ionescu: 36 PTS / 11 REB / 4 AST / 14-22 FG (63.6%)
Jones: 21 PTS / 9 REB / 4 AST / 8-13 FG (61.5%)

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With 2 assists so far today, Sabrina Ionescu now has 1,000 reg. season assists in the W.

She is 3rd-fastest all-time to 1,000 AST.

Ticha Penicheiro: 134 games
Teresa Weatherspoon: 159
Sabrina Ionescu: 170
Sue Bird: 179

She is fastest to 2,500 PTS + 1,000 AST.

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Alissa Pili and Lynne Roberts celebrating a win at Utah

Back together

It's the 2nd consecutive year the Lynx have moved a pair of players and a pick two years out for a player from a (likely) lottery team.

Last year it was Olivia Époupa, Sika Koné, and their 2026 second round pick for Myisha Hines-Allen at the deadline.

7 picks in the 2027 WNBA Draft have already moved or are involved in potential pick swaps. For perspective, 9 of the 29 college drafts in WNBA history saw 7 or fewer picks total move before draft night.

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With today's Wings/Lynx trade, WNBA trades in 2025 have now totaled 56 assets (player contracts, draft picks, future picks, pick swaps). Only 2 years have had more:

2002: 57 assets
2020: 57
2025: 56
2024: 53
2008: 46
2023: 46

Alana Beard enters Mystics Hall of Fame, inspires current guards - The IX Basketball Alana Beard, a four-time WNBA All-Star and now a Mystics Hall of Famer, made current Washington guards want to defend like her.

Former No. 2 overall #WNBA draft pick Alana Beard will be inducted into the D.C. Sports Hall of Fame today at Nationals Park.

Last year, she was inducted into the Washington Mystics' Hall of Fame. Here's my story on that day for @theixbasketball.bsky.social:

- Today's Storm game is Noelle Quinn's 171st regular season game as head coach, breaking her tie with Anne Donovan at 2nd-most in Storm history (1st is Brian Agler - 238)
- A Liberty win would be the franchise's 500th regular season win

WNBA stat watch:

- Tina Charles' next double-double is her 200th (most all-time)
- Allisha Gray's next made three is her 400th
- A'ja Wilson is 3 blocks from 500
- Sabrina Ionescu is 2 assists from 1,000

Today marked the 4th game in WNBA history where a team made at least 8 3s and still saw an opposing player make at least as many.

July 11, 2023: Jewell Loyd, 9 - Mystics, 9
Sep 10, 2017: Kristi Toliver, 9 - Liberty, 8
Sep 8, 2019: Kelsey Mitchell, 9 - Sun, 8
Aug 2, 2025: Kayla McBride, 8 - Aces, 8

Aliyah Boston and Natasha Howard tonight are the first pair of teammates to each have 10+ PTS, 10+ REB, 5+ AST, and 2+ STL in the same WNBA game.

Boston: 12 PTS / 11 REB / 5 AST / 3 STL
Howard: 11 PTS / 16 REB / 5 AST / 2 STL

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In last night's 2OT win, the Sparks became the first team in WNBA history to see 4 players each put up 20+ PTS and 4+ REB in the same game.

Rickea Jackson: 27 PTS / 9 REB
Dearica Hamby: 21 PTS / 13 REB
Azurá Stevens: 21 PTS / 5 REB
Kelsey Plum: 22 PTS / 4 REB

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Last night, Nneka Ogwumike became the 5th player age 35+ to outscore their age in a WNBA game.

D. Taurasi (Aug 3, '23): age 41, 42 PTS
C. Cooper (Aug 16, '99): age 36, 42 PTS
D. Taurasi (Aug 1, '18): age 36, 37 PTS
D. Bonner (June 8, '23): age 35, 41 PTS
N. Ogwumike (Aug 1, '25): age 35, 37 PTS

That's 7,000 points for Nneka Ogwumike.

She's the 6th player to hit that mark in WNBA regular season history and just the 3rd with 7,000+ points, 3,000+ rebounds, and 500+ steals (Tamika Catchings, DeWanna Bonner).

At 420 games, Ogwumike is fastest to 7K/3K/500.

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Aliyah Boston and Natasha Howard tonight are the first pair of teammates to each have 10+ PTS, 10+ REB, 5+ AST, and 2+ STL in the same WNBA game.

Boston: 12 PTS / 11 REB / 5 AST / 3 STL
Howard: 11 PTS / 16 REB / 5 AST / 2 STL

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- Sabrina Ionescu is 7 assists from 1,000
- Brionna Jones' next made field goal is her 1,000th
- A Liberty win would be the franchise's 500th regular season win

WNBA stat watch:

- Tina Charles' next double-double is her 200th (most all-time)
- Nneka Ogwumike is 28 points from 7,000
- Alyssa Thomas is 4 rebounds behind DeLisha Milton-Jones (2,574 - 13th)
- Brittney Griner is 3 points behind Becky Hammon (5,841 - 17th)

3 reserves for the Fever made multiple threes in tonight's game (Damiris Dantas, Sydney Colson, Chloe Bibby), just the 2nd time that has happened in a Fever game (first was in 2003).

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Alyssa Thomas is the 3rd player to finish a WNBA game with 30+ points, 15+ rebounds, and 7+ assists.

She joins Tina Thompson (2006) and Candace Parker (2012).

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