Mystics' Kiki Iriafen makes WNBA rookie history not seen since Tina Charles
Iriafen has ben putting up big game after big game for the Mystics, and she did so once again on Tuesday night against the Indiana Fever. The No. 4 pick in the draft scored 20 points on a very efficient 9-of-11 shooting to go along with nine rebounds, but the Fever still got the 85-76 win without Caitlin Clark.
Iriafen is still averaging a double-double through eight games with another great game in the books, a marker that puts her in some pretty rare company in the WNBA, via ESPN's Alexa Philippou.
“Kiki Iriafen is the 6th player in league history to average a double-double through their first eight career games and first since Tina Charles in 2010,” Philippou wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Iriafen tore up the college game during her time at Stanford playing next to Cameron Brink, but she struggled to fully ingratiate herself into the system at USC last season. Now, however, she appears to have found some more comfort at the WNBA level and has broken out as one of the Mystics' go-to scorers.
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