{"id":136637,"date":"2025-09-11T17:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/136637\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T17:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:36:07","slug":"wings-continue-paige-bueckers-rookie-of-the-year-push-with-final-game-shirt-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/136637\/","title":{"rendered":"Wings Continue Paige Bueckers Rookie of the Year Push With Final Game Shirt Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_81du0xjub\">It&#8217;s no question that Paige Bueckers is the outstanding favorite to win the league&#8217;s Rookie of the Year award this year. <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/paige-bueckers-reflected-on-rookie-season-after-tying-wnba-record\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">She&#8217;s continuously broken and created WNBA records<\/a> over the course of her first season in the league, and she&#8217;s just getting started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_loz638728\">The Wings took their support for Bueckers winning the Rookie of the Year title to a whole new level on Thursday ahead of their season finale against the Mercury. The team lined the seats in College Park Center with shirts campaigning for Bueckers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_57zgacrhc\">One shirt said &#8220;Why slow down?&#8221; while the other said &#8220;5 for Rookie of the Year.&#8221; It&#8217;ll be an arena filled with Bueckers fans on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For fans attending the Dallas Wings\u2019 season finale against the Phoenix Mercury, the team has Paige Bueckers Rookie of the Year shirts on many seats. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bxFsMsTVks\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/bxFsMsTVks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Grant Afseth (@GrantAfseth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrantAfseth\/status\/1966176065946308939?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_skp8y3gfd\">In 35 games so far this season (<a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/wings-paige-bueckers-ruled-out-saturday-game-against-mystics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she missed seven games <\/a>due to a concussion, an illness and knee problems), Bueckers averaged 19.1 points, 3.8 rebounds and 5.3 assists per contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_xydy3qu65\">Bueckers earned the WNBA Rookie of the Month title for the last three months of the year (June, July and August). This is a strong indicator that she will run away with the Rookie of the Year award as well.<\/p>\n<p>More WNBA on Sports Illustrated<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s no question that Paige Bueckers is the outstanding favorite to win the league&#8217;s Rookie of the Year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-136637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}