Kelsey Bone of the Connecticut Sun earned her first WNBA Eastern Conference Player of the Week honor after finishing the season with a personal best on Sunday.

Bone, a third-year center, averaged a league-high 25 points in two games and was third in the East in rebounding (7 rpg).

Bone had 19 points and 10 rebounds in a 74-64 loss to the league-leading New York Liberty (Sept. 9). Sunday, she scored a career-high 31 to lead the Sun to an 86-75 win over the defending Eastern Conference champion Chicago Sky, seeded second in this year’s East playoffs.

Connecticut (15-19) missed the playoffs for a franchise-record third straight season, but Bone made herself into a viable candidate for the league’s Most Improved Player. She had the season’s seventh-best scoring average (15.4), an improvement of 6.1 points. She also averaged a career-high 6.3 rebounds in her second season with the team and was chosen by the league's head coaches to play in July's WNBA All-Star Game.