{"id":1935305,"date":"2026-09-27T09:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T13:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1935305"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:32:20","slug":"aja-wilson-wins-ap-wnba-player-of-the-year-for-3rd-straight-year-angel-reese-top-defensive-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1935305","title":{"rendered":"A&#8217;ja Wilson wins AP WNBA Player of the Year for 3rd straight year; Angel Reese top defensive player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A&#8217;ja Wilson is in a class by herself, winning the AP&#8217;s WNBA Player of the Year award for an unprecedented third straight year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/c21ff-aja-wilson-wins-ap-wnba-player-of-the-year-for-3rd-straight-year-angel-reese-top-defensive-player\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A&#8217;ja Wilson is in a class by herself, winning the AP&#8217;s WNBA Player of the Year award for an unprecedented third straight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1935306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[117,118,114,115,119,116,120,121],"class_list":["post-1935305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","tag-barcelona","tag-bayern","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-madrid","tag-pakistan","tag-lanka","tag-odi","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1935305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935307,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935305\/revisions\/1935307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1935305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1935305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1935305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}