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Rhyne Howard Rookie of the Month

By Yakiri Thomas / June 1, 2022

The WNBA announced today, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2022 WNBA Draft, Atlanta Dream guard Rhyne Howard was named the Kia Rookie of the Month. Howard averaged a team-high 16.9 points in her first month of her professional career and led all rookies with 1.5 steals per game.

Since her professional WNBA debut, Howard is the WNBA’s tenth-leading scorer with 16.9 points per game and the league’s highest-scoring rookie this season heading into Wednesday’s game against Minnesota. She eclipsed 100 points in only five games, and reached 135 after the May 29 game against Phoenix, the sixth-most of any rookie in league history in that time span and the most of any Dream rookie in franchise history.

She tied the record for the third-most points scored in a game by a Dream rookie with 33 points in a win over the Indiana Fever on May 15. Her 17 points in the first quarter of that game tied the third-most scored in a quarter by a first-year player in the WNBA, and the most ever scored by a rookie in a first quarter of any WNBA game.

The Dream return to action tonight, hosting the Minnesota Lynx at 7:00 p.m. ET on Bally Sports Southeast.

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