WNBA records broken in the 2026 season: Angel Reese's 29th double-double and Kayla McBride's 10 threes

On 30 August 2026, Angel Reese recorded the 29th double-double of her season, breaking a WNBA single-season record that had stood since 2023. She reached it with 15 points and 11 rebounds as the Atlanta Dream beat the league-leading Minnesota Lynx 89-81 in College Park, Georgia. The previous record of 28 double-doubles belonged to Alyssa Thomas, set in 2023 during her time with the Connecticut Sun.^[1][2][3]

The double-double mark was not the only rebounding record attached to Reese's 2026 season. Yahoo Sports reported that she also set a single-season rebounding record with 458 rebounds, passing A'ja Wilson's 2024 total of 451, and that she pulled down 26 rebounds in a single game on 24 August, split between 18 defensive and 8 offensive boards. Those supplementary figures were carried by that outlet's reporting rather than confirmed across multiple independent sources, so they are treated here as reported claims rather than established facts.^[2]

Three weeks earlier, on 9 August 2026, Minnesota Lynx guard Kayla McBride became the first player in WNBA history to make double-digit three-pointers in a single game. She hit 10 of 14 attempts from beyond the arc and finished with a career-high 43 points in a 103-90 win over the Dallas Wings. McBride was in her 13th WNBA season at the time.^[4][5][6][7]

The record she broke had proved unusually durable at its ceiling. Nine three-pointers in a game had been reached repeatedly without anyone reaching ten (eight previous times by the Associated Press count, nine occasions by seven players according to WNBA.com), and two of those instances came in the 2026 season alone, both by Toronto's Marina Mabrey within a six-day span. That context is what made the tenth shot notable: the league had been pressing against the same number repeatedly, including twice in the same campaign, before McBride cleared it.^[4][5][7]

The most common error in coverage and in reader recall of the Reese record is the team. Reese entered the WNBA with the Chicago Sky and much of the archived material about her rebounding is tied to that franchise, but the 29th double-double was recorded for the Atlanta Dream. Search results that mix older Chicago-era material with the 2026 record can give the impression of two different records or two different seasons.^[1][2][3]

A second point worth separating is that Reese's 2026 season produced several distinct records that are easy to conflate: the single-season double-double record, a single-season rebounding total, and a single-game rebounding figure are three separate marks with three separate dates, and only the double-double record is corroborated across ESPN, Yahoo Sports and Associated Press-syndicated reporting. Similarly, on the McBride side, the game was against the Dallas Wings while the previous nine-three performances in 2026 belonged to a Toronto player, so aggregated 'records broken' lists sometimes attach the wrong opponent to the wrong performance. Checking the date attached to each record is the quickest way to keep them apart.^[1][2][4]