Aces Guard Jackie Young Named 2022 Most Improved Player

Aces All-Star guard Jackie Young was named the WNBA’s 2022 Most Improved Player, the league announced Monday, receiving 32 of 56 votes from a national panel of sportswriters and broadcasters.

Young, the No. 1 pick in the 2019 WNBA draft, averaged career-highs in points (15.9), rebounds (4.4) and steals per game (1.4), and upped her three-point percentage from 25% in 2021 to 43.1% in 2022.

“When it came to threes, for some reason there was just like a mental block there, and I think it was just getting over that and trusting myself,” she told Sports Illustrated earlier this summer.

First-year coach Becky Hammon, who was named the league’s Coach of the Year last week, pushed Young to be more of…