Kahleah Copper is the WNBA Western Conference Player of The Week        

The WNBA announced on Tuesday that Phoenix Mercury Guard Kahleah Copper was named Western Conference Player of The Week.  

Copper led the Mercury to a 2-1 record in their three games last week. In that span, she averaged a league high 29.7 points per game, on 53.2% shooting and 48% from three-point range.

Copper’s career-high 38 points helped the Mercury secure a win in the home-opener against the Atlanta Dream. In another record setting night, she put up 37-points to lead the Mercury to a win in Vegas. These back-to-back showings make Copper the first player in WNBA history with back-to-back 37+ point games. The 37 points come on a career-high 65.2% shooting and 5-of-9 from three-point range.

Copper followed up these career performances with 20 points in the Mercury’s win over the Atlanta Dream and 32 points on 50.5% shooting against the Dallas Wings. The game against the Wings brought yet another career milestone, as Copper hit 3,000 points in her 259 games in the WNBA.

This is Copper’s second Player of The Week honor, the first coming in 2022 in her time with the Chicago Sky.

Through five games this season, Copper is averaging a career and league-high 29.2 points per game, on a career high 50.5% shooting from the field and 48.6% from three-point range, to go with 4 rebounds, 2.4 assists, and a career-high 1.0 steal per game.

She’s totaled 146 points through the first five games of the season, the third most in WNBA history, behind only Maya Moore (149 in 2014) and Elena Della Donne (148 in 2015).

Copper also joins Maya Moore as the only other player in WNBA history to average 29 or more points while shooting at least 53% from the field and 48% from three-point range through the first five games of the season and is currently the only player in the league with three 30+ points games.