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In a way, Kayla McBride predicted all of this.
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When the Minnesota Lynx took Olivia Miles with the second overall pick in April’s draft, McBride — a five-time All-Star and one of the WNBA’s most electric 3-point shooters — told head coach Cheryl Reeve that she had made the best choice possible.
“I’m going to be so open,” McBride told Reeve then.
A mere four months later, McBride made WNBA history.
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McBride on Sunday night broke the league record for 3-pointers in a game by drilling 10 of them in a 103-90 win over the Dallas Wings.
She also set a career high in points with 43, while Miles set a new personal best with 13 assists.
For McBride, playing alongside Miles in the Lynx backcourt has given her a new lease on life.
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In 2025, McBride grappled with the potential end of her career in Minnesota following a disappointing playoff exit to the Phoenix Mercury.
But McBride re-signed on a two-year contract in free agency, and she is playing arguably the best basketball of her career.
McBride is averaging a career-best 18.4 points per game, and she leads the WNBA with 100 three-pointers made. She attributes a lot of that success to the rookie Miles, who has her feeling “like a kid in a candy store.”
“T he last time I played with a true point guard, it was Courtney Vandersloot, and it was some of the best, most fun basketball I played,” McBride told reporters at Target Center on Sunday. “It’s not that I haven’t had amazing moments with (Courtney Williams), but it’s just something about playing with a true PG … you know you get that ball with the laces and that velocity, it’s just like (a) kid in a candy store, truly.”
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