Seattle Storm guard Jewell Loyd signed a new contract extension on Saturday, then celebrated by setting the WNBA’s single-season points record on Sunday in the team’s final game of the season. Loyd put up 28 points in a defeat to the Los Angeles Sparks, to finish the season with 939 total points.
“It’s kind of how I say thank you to my trainers back home, my teammates, everybody who kind of supported me on this journey because it wasn’t easy to do what I was doing,” Loyd said of the record. “Quite frankly, no one else was doing it, so it’s pretty cool. Maybe I’ll feel more about it after, but right now, I think it’s me being proud of everybody around me and saying thank you to them.”
Entering the season, the record was held by Phoenix Mercury legend Diana Taurasi, who poured in 860 points in 2006, when she also set the league’s single-season scoring average record of 25.3 points per game. It’s important to note that Taurasi accomplished both feats in just 33 games, as the season’s back then were only 34 games long.
Once the league decided to expand the season to a record 40 games this season, it was always likely that players were going to break her record, along with numerous other total records. In…
