{"id":148428,"date":"2025-09-16T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/148428\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:42:08","slug":"paige-bueckers-near-unanimous-rookie-of-the-year-after-scintillating-wnba-debut-season-wnba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/148428\/","title":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers near unanimous rookie of the year after scintillating WNBA debut season | WNBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Dallas Wings star Paige Bueckers was a runaway choice for WNBA Rookie of the Year after one of the best debut seasons in league history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Bueckers received 70 of the 72 votes from sportswriters and broadcasters in balloting announced by the league on Tuesday. The other two went to Washington Mystics guard Sonia Citron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Bueckers, the No 1 overall pick in this year\u2019s draft, was a bright spot on a team that tied the Chicago Sky with a league-worst 10-34 record. The former UConn star averaged 19.2 points on 47.7% shooting along with 3.9 rebounds, 5.4 assists and 1.6 steals. But those numbers don\u2019t tell the complete story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Her 692 points and 194 assists were the third-most by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/wnba\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a> rookie. The highlight was when she scored 44 in a loss to the Los Angeles Sparks in August. That was the WNBA\u2019s highest point total this season and the most ever by a rookie. She also became the first player in league history to score 40 or more while shooting 80% in a game. That performance came near the end of a 30-game double-digit streak, the third longest to start a career behind A\u2019ja Wilson\u2019s 33 games in 2018 and Candace Parker\u2019s 32 games in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Wings star Paige Bueckers was a runaway choice for WNBA Rookie of the Year after one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-148428","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\/148428","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=148428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}