Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas has been named the Western Conference Player of the Week for games played from August 25 to 31, according to an announcement by the WNBA. This is Thomas’ second time receiving the honor this season and the 12th in her career.
During this period, Thomas contributed to three consecutive wins for the Mercury, averaging a triple-double with 13.7 points, 10.0 rebounds, 10.0 assists, and 2.0 steals per game while shooting 55.6% from the field.
In Phoenix’s victory over Los Angeles on August 26, Thomas recorded her seventh triple-double of the season with 12 points, 16 rebounds, 15 assists, and three steals. This performance broke her own WNBA single-season record for triple-doubles; she previously set the mark with six in 2023. The six-time All-Star now holds a total of 18 career regular season triple-doubles and has more triple-doubles in August (six) than any other WNBA player has achieved over their entire career.
Thomas also became the first player in league history to post at least 15 rebounds and 15 assists in a single game and is the first to have back-to-back games with at least 15 assists. She has five games this season with at least that many assists, extending her own single-season record; previously, Courtney Vandersloot held the record with three such games in 2020. No other player in the league this year has matched a single game with at least 15 assists.
Following her historic night against Los Angeles, Thomas added strong performances against Chicago on August 28—scoring 15 points along with nine rebounds, six assists, and three steals—and against New York on August 30—posting fourteen points, five rebounds, and nine assists as Phoenix clinched its season series against last year’s champions.
Thomas now holds a streak of twelve straight games recording at least ten points, five rebounds, and five assists—a new WNBA record surpassing Sabrina Ionescu’s eleven-game run set in 2022. Against Chicago she set a new league record for most points generated off assists in a single season (759), passing Caitlin Clark’s previous mark of 751 set earlier this year. In Phoenix’s win over New York she also established a new franchise single-season rebounding record (303), overtaking Brianna Turner’s prior record from 2021.
Through thirty-four games this season Thomas is averaging career highs: fifteen-point-eight points per game (ranking fifteenth in the league), fifty-three-point-nine percent shooting (sixth), nine-point-two assists (first), eight-point-nine rebounds (third), and one-point-six steals (sixth). She is currently on track to become the first player in WNBA history to average at least fifteen points, eight rebounds, nine assists and one steal per game while shooting above fifty percent from the field—a statistical achievement only matched by LeBron James, Magic Johnson and Nikola Jokić in NBA history.
“Alyssa Thomas has been named the Western Conference Player of the Week for games played from August 25 to 31,” stated Phoenix Mercury officials through their announcement today.
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