Oct 26, 2025, 01:21 PM ET<\/p>\n
WNBA star Paige Bueckers<\/a> enjoyed her first ever Premier League match on Sunday as she watched Arsenal beat Crystal Palace at the Emirates.<\/a><\/p>\n Bueckers, who won WNBA Rookie of the Year with the Dallas Wings<\/a>, has been taking in some other sporting sights this offseason and was spotted last week enjoying the Dallas Cowboys’ game against the Washington Commanders.<\/a><\/p>\n Appearing on Arsenal’s official pre-match show, Bueckers said: “This is my first [Premier League match]. It’s a great field with a great crowd, and I’m just excited to be here.”<\/p>\n On football’s popularity within her league, the 24-year-old added: “We’re huge NWSL supporters, that’s the league that we go to games, I’ve got a couple of friends in the league, so I think football is continuing to grow.”<\/p>\n She was in esteemed company at the Emirates, with rock legend Jon Bon Jovi also seen in North London watching the Gunners win 1-0.<\/p>\n Bueckers and the Wings return to the WNBA when the 2026 season commences in late spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 26, 2025, 01:21 PM ET WNBA star Paige Bueckers enjoyed her first ever Premier League match on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-242003","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\/242003","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=242003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}