Becky Hammon Earns 2nd Straight Western Conference Player of the Week

Hammon joined Eastern Conference winner and five-time honoree Katie Douglas (Indiana Fever) as the week’s honorees for regular season games played Monday, Aug.3 through Sunday, Aug. 9. It marks the second week in a row that these two players won the award and the first time that both Player of the Week winners won the award in consecutive weeks.

For the week, Hammon averaged 22.7 points on 44.2 percent (23-52) shooting, 3.7 rebounds, 5.3 assists and 2.7 steals. She led the Silver Stars to a 2-1 week, including wins at Los Angeles and Minnesota. Behind her performance, the Silver Stars gained ground on their Western Conference competitors with a 2-1 record, including two road wins.

In the week’s finale, Hammon narrowly missed a double-double when she scored 22 points and handed out nine assists in San Antonio’s road win over the Minnesota Lynx. In the game, she scored 12 points in the third quarter and nailed a three pointer with just over two minutes left in the game to give the Silver Stars the lead. At the beginning of the week, she scored 20 points in a win at Los Angeles. She made a lay-up to tie the game with less than two minutes remaining and then sealed the win by hitting her final four free throws.

This season, Hammon was selected to her fifth career All-Star Game, where she won the 2009 Three-Point Shootout. A three-time All-WNBA selection, Hammon’s season average of 21.2 points per game leads the WNBA in scoring while her 4.8 assists per game is fifth among league leaders.

Other candidates for WNBA Players of the Week were Atlanta’s Sancho Lyttle, Minnesota’s Nicky Anosike, Phoenix’s Cappie Pondexter and Sacramento’s Courtney Paris.

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