PHX Reporter

Phoenix Mercury's Kahleah Copper has been named to the 2024 All-WNBA Second Team, as announced by the WNBA. This accolade marks Copper’s first career All-WNBA honor.

In her debut season with the Mercury, after being acquired through a trade on February 6, Copper achieved a personal best by averaging 21.1 points per game, along with 4.5 rebounds and 2.3 assists. She ranked third in league scoring and recorded nine games with over 30 points, second only to A’ja Wilson, who had eleven such performances and was unanimously named the 2024 Kia WNBA MVP. Notably, Copper became the first player in league history to achieve consecutive games with more than 37 points, scoring 37 and then a career-high of 38 points in victories against Atlanta and Las Vegas on May 18 and May 21.

Copper concluded the season with a total of 782 points, placing her eleventh in WNBA history for most points in a single season and third within the franchise behind Diana Taurasi’s totals from the 2006 and 2008 seasons (860 and 820 respectively). Her nine games with over thirty points are also second in franchise history, close to Taurasi’s record of ten such games in one season set in 2008.

At age thirty, Copper was selected as a WNBA All-Star for the fourth consecutive year. She was also part of the USA Basketball Women’s National Team at the Paris Olympic Games in 2024, where she secured her first Olympic gold medal by scoring a team-high ten points during the fourth quarter of the final match.

Copper is now among eight Mercury players who have been named to an All-WNBA Team. This list includes Diana Taurasi (who holds a league-record fourteen selections), Brittney Griner (six), Skylar Diggins-Smith (three), Jennifer Gillom (two), Penny Taylor (two), DeWanna Bonner (one), and Cappie Pondexter (one). She joins Taurasi and Diggins-Smith as one of only three players to earn All-WNBA honors during their inaugural season with Phoenix Mercury.

The selection for the All-WNBA Teams was made by a national panel consisting of sixty-eight sportswriters and broadcasters. The players were chosen irrespective of position, receiving five points for each First Team vote and three for each Second Team vote.