{"id":289477,"date":"2025-11-17T19:23:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/289477\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T19:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:23:19","slug":"wnba-star-paige-bueckers-opened-up-about-how-she-managed-to-keep-going-through-a-season-full-of-ups-and-downs-wnba-star-paige-bueckers-opened-up-about-how-she-managed-to-keep-going-through-a-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/289477\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA star Paige Bueckers opened up about how she managed to keep going through a season full of ups and downs… – WNBA star Paige Bueckers opened up about how she managed to keep going through a season full of ups and downs… – Tekedia Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pressure is merely an element of the play for Paige Bueckers. The WNBA Rookie of the Year winner just finished an incredible season full of personal highs, including the most points ever scored by a rookie, 44, in the Dallas Wings’ loss to the Los Angeles Sparks on August 20.<\/p>\n

However, those highlights have not come without difficulties, which the 24-year-old continues to face on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s been a learning process of learning how to stop caring about other people’s opinions of you,\u201d in a special conversation with USA Network, Bueckers acknowledged. \u201cDon’t look to the left, don’t look to the right. Run your own race and just be super driven, super purpose-filled, and be super present-minded.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bueckers is not letting the clamor get to her, even if the Wings ended the season outside of postseason contention. She is instead concentrating on the guidance she would offer to any young person who aspires to be an athlete.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEmbrace the hard, embrace the adversity,\u201d she clarified. \u201cI feel like life is all about how you respond to challenges and how you may respond to stuff not going your way, whether that be an injury, a loss, everything should motivate you in a positive way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That attitude is what led her to accept her most recent off-court offer\u2014a three-year deal with CarMax, the NBA and WNBA’s official vehicle retailer\u2014and it also reveals the tenacity she is bringing to the next stage of her career. She participates in the brand’s \u201cWanna Drive?\u201d campaign, which honors those who pursue their objectives on their own terms, alongside Donovan Mitchell of the Cleveland Cavaliers.<\/p>\n

When Bueckers informed a reporter in July <\/a>that she would \u201clike to have a car dealership partnership, so I don\u2019t have to pay for a car.\u201d she may have been expressing this strategy.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on those remarks, the University of Connecticut graduate jokingly expressed her hope that the remaining manifestations will materialize: \u201cThe other half of what my former manifestation was real estate or a realtor, or somebody willing to help me find a house!\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, Bueckers is featured with other WNBA players like A’ja Wilson and Sabrina Ionescu in her new CarMax commercial, which she says has been essential to increasing the representation of female athletes on television.<\/p>\n

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“You can see it growing: the excitement, the accessibility, the representation,\u201d she stated. \u201cI feel like there’s a ton of momentum that we want to continue to keep building for the next generation because the people before have paved the way for us to continue to build it. So, you just want to continue to build off the momentum and continue to watch it grow and rise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Furthermore, she is not slowing down. Bueckers will play in the second season of the three-on-three basketball league Unrivaled during the WNBA summer. She is also anticipating the upcoming WNBA season and the Dallas Wings’ organizational changes, including the hiring of Jose Fernandez as head coach. Fernandez is a close associate of Bueckers’ former UConn coach Geno Auriemma.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like the foundation that we built last year and the culture that we want to send, the people that we want to have in the building, and the people we want to build with is continuing to grow,\u201d Bueckers thought about it. \u201cI feel like there was a lot of new last year. There’s going to be some new this year, so continuing how to do it together makes it a lot easier rather than trying to figure it out as individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In May 2026, USA Network will premiere the upcoming season of the WBNA.<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

Pressure is merely an element of the play for Paige Bueckers. The WNBA Rookie of the Year winner just finished an incredible season full of personal highs, including the most points ever scored by a rookie, 44, in the Dallas Wings’ loss to the Los Angeles Sparks on August 20.<\/p>\n

However, those highlights have not come without difficulties, which the 24-year-old continues to face on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s been a learning process of learning how to stop caring about other people’s opinions of you,\u201d in a special conversation with USA Network, Bueckers acknowledged. \u201cDon’t look to the left, don’t look to the right. Run your own race and just be super driven, super purpose-filled, and be super present-minded.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bueckers is not letting the clamor get to her, even if the Wings ended the season outside of postseason contention. She is instead concentrating on the guidance she would offer to any young person who aspires to be an athlete.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\u201cEmbrace the hard, embrace the adversity,\u201d she clarified. \u201cI feel like life is all about how you respond to challenges and how you may respond to stuff not going your way, whether that be an injury, a loss, everything should motivate you in a positive way.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

That attitude is what led her to accept her most recent off-court offer\u2014a three-year deal with CarMax, the NBA and WNBA’s official vehicle retailer\u2014and it also reveals the tenacity she is bringing to the next stage of her career. She participates in the brand’s \u201cWanna Drive?\u201d campaign, which honors those who pursue their objectives on their own terms, alongside Donovan Mitchell of the Cleveland Cavaliers.<\/p>\n

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When Bueckers informed a reporter in July <\/a>that she would \u201clike to have a car dealership partnership, so I don\u2019t have to pay for a car.\u201d she may have been expressing this strategy.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on those remarks, the University of Connecticut graduate jokingly expressed her hope that the remaining manifestations will materialize: \u201cThe other half of what my former manifestation was real estate or a realtor, or somebody willing to help me find a house!\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, Bueckers is featured with other WNBA players like A’ja Wilson and Sabrina Ionescu in her new CarMax commercial, which she says has been essential to increasing the representation of female athletes on television.<\/p>\n

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“You can see it growing: the excitement, the accessibility, the representation,\u201d she stated. \u201cI feel like there’s a ton of momentum that we want to continue to keep building for the next generation because the people before have paved the way for us to continue to build it. So, you just want to continue to build off the momentum and continue to watch it grow and rise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Furthermore, she is not slowing down. Bueckers will play in the second season of the three-on-three basketball league Unrivaled during the WNBA summer. She is also anticipating the upcoming WNBA season and the Dallas Wings’ organizational changes, including the hiring of Jose Fernandez as head coach. Fernandez is a close associate of Bueckers’ former UConn coach Geno Auriemma.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like the foundation that we built last year and the culture that we want to send, the people that we want to have in the building, and the people we want to build with is continuing to grow,\u201d Bueckers thought about it. \u201cI feel like there was a lot of new last year. There’s going to be some new this year, so continuing how to do it together makes it a lot easier rather than trying to figure it out as individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In May 2026, USA Network will premiere the upcoming season of the WBNA.<\/p>\n

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