{"id":255916,"date":"2026-08-03T03:35:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/lynxs-olivia-miles-outduels-fevers-kelsey-mitchell-in-her-welcome-to-the-w-moment\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:35:20","slug":"lynxs-olivia-miles-outduels-fevers-kelsey-mitchell-in-her-welcome-to-the-w-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/lynxs-olivia-miles-outduels-fevers-kelsey-mitchell-in-her-welcome-to-the-w-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynx&#8217;s Olivia Miles outduels Fever&#8217;s Kelsey Mitchell in her &#8216;welcome to the W moment&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/teams\/minnesota_lynx\/17275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota Lynx\u00a0<\/a> rookie guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/players\/olivia_miles\/930299\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olivia Miles<\/a> was wonderstruck for the first time this season.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>At halftime of Minnesota&#8217;s home game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/teams\/indiana_fever\/17260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indiana Fever,<\/a>  Miles admitted to ESPN&#8217;s Holly Rowe that she was &#8220;in awe&#8221; of guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/players\/kelsey_mitchell\/911455\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kelsey Mitchell<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is lowkey my welcome to the W moment, just trying to guard her,&#8221; Miles said while the Lynx led 64-53.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for Minnesota, Miles didn&#8217;t blink. She instead delivered another sensational performance.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\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\/lynxs_olivia_miles_outduels_fevers_kelsey_mitchell_in_her_welcome_to_the_w_moment\/s1_13132_44129908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Minnesota Lynx\u00a0 rookie guard Olivia Miles was wonderstruck for the first time this season.\u00a0 At halftime of Minnesota&#8217;s home game against the Indiana Fever, Miles admitted to ESPN&#8217;s Holly Rowe that she was &#8220;in awe&#8221; of guard Kelsey Mitchell.\u00a0 &#8220;This is lowkey my welcome to the W moment, just trying to guard her,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255917,"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-255916","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\/255916","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=255916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}