Full Bio: Aaliyah Nye
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WNBA TRANSACTIONS
| April 14, 2025 | Drafted by Las Vegas in the second round (No. 13 overall) of the 2025 WNBA Draft from Alabama |
WNBA REGULAR SEASON CAREER
Career Highlights
- 2025 WNBA Champion
2025 (Las Vegas | 30-14, 2nd place)
- Won WNBA Championship
- Finished 4th among franchise rookies in made 3-pointers (37)
- 1 of 3 rookies in franchise history to record at least 35 3-pointers, 60 rebounds, 20 assists and 10 steals in their first season (Elena Baranova and Kayla McBride)
- Ranked 7th among the 2025 rookie class in total 3-pointers made
- Only 1 of 3 rookies to appear in all 44 regular season games (Washington’s Sonia Citron and Kiki Iriafen)
- Only 1 of 7 rookies to record 5 or more 3-pointers in a single game in 2025
- Became the 15th player out of Alabama to get drafted to the WNBA
WNBA POSTSEASON CAREER
2025 (Las Vegas—2-1 vs. Seattle, 1st Round; 3-2 vs. Indiana, Semifinals; 4-0 vs. Phoenix, Finals)
- Appeared in 6 playoff games
ATHLETES UNLIMITED CAREER
2025 Season (Nashville, Tennessee)
ATHLETES UNLIMITED STATISTICS
| Year | Leaderboard | League | G | Min | FG | FGA | FG% | 3G | 3GA | 3G% | FT | FTA | FT% | OR | DR | REB | A | S | B | TO | PF | TOTAL AU PTS | Avg. |
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COLLEGE
Graduate Student (Alabama, 2024-25)
- 2024 Second Team All-SEC
- Set the Alabama record for most 3-pointers made in a single season (109), passing her previous record of 108
- SEC Player of the Week (Dec. 31, 2024)
- Recorded a career-high 32 points at Ole Miss
- Led the SEC in 3-point field goal percentage (.455), 3-pointers per game (3.4) and the most 3-pointers made in a game (9 vs. Florida on 2/6/25)
- Scored a career-high 32 points vs. Ole Miss on 1/12/25
- Led Alabama to the Round of 32 in the 2025 NCAA Tournament
Senior (Alabama, 2023-24)
- Set the single season program record for most 3-pointers made in a season (108)
- Surpassed 1,000 career points on Jan. 11
- Led the SEC in 3-pointers per game (3.2)
- Ranked 2nd in the SEC in 3-point field goal percentage (.417)
- Averaged 14.1 points on 41.5% field goal shooting
- Scored a season-high 28 points vs. Mississippi State on 2/25/24
- Helped lead Alabama to the Round of 32 in the 2024 NCAA Tournament
Junior (Alabama, 2022-23)
- Averaged 9.3 points on 45.4% field goal shooting
- Scored a season-high 21 points vs. Southeastern on 12/20/22 and hit a season-high 7 3-pointers in that same game
- Scored in double figures in 8 out of her last 9 games
- Helped Alabama to the Round of 64 in the 2023 NCAA Tournament
Sophomore (Illinois, 2021-22)
- Appeared in 27 games and made 25 starts
- Scored a then-career-high 25 points vs. Ohio State on 2/14/22
- Averaged 7.4 points in 27 games
- 2022 All-Big Ten Honorable Mention
- 2022 Winter Academic All-Big Ten
Freshman (Illinois, 2020-21)
- Averaged 8.1 points and 2.2 rebounds
- Appeared in 18 games, including the last 10 games
- Scored a season-high 17 points, including going 40% (4-10 3FGs) from 3-point range
- Scored in double figures in 7 games
COLLEGE STATISTICS
| Year | Team | G | GS | Min | FG | FGA | FG% | 3G | 3GA | 3G% | FT | FTA | FT% | OR | DR | REB | A | S | B | TO | PF | PTS | Avg. |
| 2020-21 | Illinois | 18 | 10 | 414 | 54 | 137 | .394 | 27 | 77 | .351 | 10 | 17 | .588 | 11 | 28 | 39 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 29 | 145 | 8.1 |
| 2021-22 |
Illinois | 27 | 25 | 800 | 120 | 288 | .417 | 69 | 187 | .369 | 25 | 38 | .658 | 22 | 59 | 81 | 33 | 27 | 11 | 52 | 35 | 334 | 12.4 |
| 2022-23 | Alabama | 30 | 26 | 706 | 98 | 216 | .454 | 74 | 164 | .451 | 9 | 14 | .643 | 7 | 51 | 58 | 22 | 38 | 7 | 31 | 58 | 279 | 9.3 |
| 2023-24 | Alabama | 34 | 34 | 1,066 | 169 | 407 | .415 | 108 | 259 | .417 | 34 | 48 | .708 | 19 | 85 | 104 | 43 | 62 | 15 | 46 | 56 | 480 | 14.1 |
| 2024-25 | Alabama | 33 | 33 | 1,105 | 173 | 381 | .454 | 111 | 244 | .455 | 44 | 53 | .830 | 4 | 72 | 76 | 46 | 36 | 9 | 43 | 62 | 501 | 15.2 |
| Totals/Averages | 142 | 128 | 4,091 | 614 | 1,429 | .427 | 389 | 931 | .409 | 122 | 170 | .686 | 63 | 295 | 358 | 162 | 170 | 48 | 185 | 240 | 1,739 | 11.8 | |
HIGH SCHOOL
- 2020 Michigan Miss Basketball Runner Up
- AP Division I Player of the Year
- 2020 Player of the Year by the Lansing State Journal
- First Team All-Michigan honors
- Scored 1,370 career points in high school at East Lansing High School
PERSONAL
- Birthday is Aug. 14, 2002
- Has a twin sister, Aashawnti, and an older sister, Aazhenii
- Proud tribal citizen of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan (Gun Lake Tribe)
- Grew up in Huntsville, Alabama