{"id":366834,"date":"2025-12-24T22:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366834\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T22:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:42:08","slug":"media-sends-virtual-gift-to-wings-star-paige-bueckers-in-time-for-christmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366834\/","title":{"rendered":"Media sends virtual gift to Wings star Paige Bueckers in time for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas Day is rapidly approaching, which means The Athletic&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6912482\/2025\/12\/23\/2025-winners-losers-womens-basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;winners and losers&#8221; <\/a>across the sports world are officially out to put a bow on this year&#8217;s calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically in the women&#8217;s sports category, this year can&#8217;t be topped without a mention of Dallas Wings star guard Paige Bueckers. Before eventually becoming the No. 1 overall selection by the Wings in this year&#8217;s WNBA Draft, Bueckers led the UConn Huskies and her former coach, Geno Auriemma, to a national title win. <\/p>\n<p>The achievement put Bueckers and Auriemma on the &#8220;gift&#8221; list, making their holiday season a little bit extra special. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Entering the 2024-25 season, the pressure on Paige Bueckers \u2014 already a national Player of the Year and multi-time All-American \u2014 was mounting to end the drought and cement her Huskies\u2019 legacy with the ultimate crown,&#8221; Sabreena Merchant wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Paige Bueckers&#8217; Success Isn&#8217;t Secretive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christmas Day is rapidly approaching, which means The Athletic&#8217;s &#8220;winners and losers&#8221; across the sports world are officially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-366834","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\/366834","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=366834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}