{"id":457554,"date":"2026-02-06T12:23:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T12:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/457554\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T12:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T12:23:34","slug":"paige-bueckers-wnba-rookies-top-unrivaleds-1-on-1-tournament-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/457554\/","title":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers, WNBA rookies top Unrivaled’s 1-on-1 tournament list"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Meghan L. Hall, USA TODAY<\/p>\n

Updated Tue, February 3, 2026 at 7:06 PM UTC\"\"<\/p>\n

Breeze BC guard Paige Bueckers<\/a> will give fans a look at what it might look like to play her on the playground.<\/p>\n

Unrivaled announced the 32 participants<\/a> for its 2026 one-on-one tournament on Tuesday. Bueckers and other members of her WNBA rookie class are among players who will vie for a portion of the tournament’s $300,000 prize pool. The winner gets $200,000, runner-up $50,000 and $25,000 each to the other two semifinalists.<\/p>\n

Joining the WNBA Rookie of the Year is her Breeze teammate and No. 2 overall pick Dominique Malonga and Hive guards Sonia Citron and Saniya Rivers, the No. 3 and No. 8 overall picks. Other newcomers to this year’s tournament include Mist guard Veronica Burton and forward Li Yueru.<\/p>\n

Unrivaled co-founder Napheesa Collier<\/a> won last year’s tournament. However, she is out for the season after surgery on both ankles<\/a>. Lunar Owls forward Aaliyah Edwards was the runner-up last season and Mist guard Arike Ogunbowale was in the semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan L. Hall, USA TODAY Updated Tue, February 3, 2026 at 7:06 PM UTC Breeze BC guard Paige…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[9001,12201,49,48,40528,23310,729,4658,12932,4649,82,1457,25737,630],"class_list":["post-457554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-aaliyah-edwards","tag-arike-ogunbowale","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dominique-malonga","tag-li-yueru","tag-napheesa-collier","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-saniya-rivers","tag-sonia-citron","tag-sports","tag-tournament","tag-veronica-burton","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457554","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=457554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}