{"id":247092,"date":"2026-06-07T04:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/lynx-guard-olivia-miles-continues-to-build-roy-case-in-win-over-storm\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T04:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:37:11","slug":"lynx-guard-olivia-miles-continues-to-build-roy-case-in-win-over-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/lynx-guard-olivia-miles-continues-to-build-roy-case-in-win-over-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynx guard Olivia Miles continues to build ROY case in win over Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rookie guard Olivia Miles had another impressive performance on Saturday as the red-hot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/teams\/minnesota_lynx\/17275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota Lynx<\/a> won their seventh consecutive game.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 2 overall pick of the 2026 WNBA Draft had 19 points on 9-of-14 shooting, six rebounds and six assists in the 88-68 home victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/teams\/seattle_storm\/17284\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seattle Storm<\/a>, further distancing herself in the Rookie of the Year race at the season&#8217;s quarter mark.<\/p>\n<h2>Olivia Miles, Lynx stay red-hot as team improves to 9-2<\/h2>\n<p>Following Saturday, Miles is averaging 17.2 points, five rebounds and 6.4 assists per game this season. She&#8217;s been an impressive, seamless fit in a veteran-heavy Lynx starting lineup. Everyone else in the rotation is at least 30, but Miles has never appeared out of her element, demonstrating impressive confidence and maturity for a player her age.<\/p>\n<p>Early, she got Minnesota on the board with he team trailing, 6-0, 90 seconds into the game, with an attacking basket on a pick-and-roll, driving against Storm center Stefanie Dolson for a layup off the glass.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/articles\/lynx_guard_olivia_miles_continues_to_build_roy_case_in_win_over_storm\/s1_13132_43925858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rookie guard Olivia Miles had another impressive performance on Saturday as the red-hot Minnesota Lynx won their seventh consecutive game. The No. 2 overall pick of the 2026 WNBA Draft had 19 points on 9-of-14 shooting, six rebounds and six assists in the 88-68 home victory over the Seattle Storm, further distancing herself in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-247092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}