NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Paige Bueckers was happy her technical foul from Friday night\u2019s game against Atlanta was rescinded by the league on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Not only did it save her the $500 fine, but more importantly it kept her with none for the season which was important for her \u201cbet\u201d with Dallas teammate Alysha Clark. The two have a friendly wager that Bueckers wouldn’t get one this season.<\/p>\n
“I’m glad to get that one back,” Bueckers said smiling before the Dallas Wings faced New York.<\/p>\n
Bueckers was given the technical foul as her team was rallying against Atlanta and the second-year player was clapping aggressively. She was astonished to learn that she had received a technical for it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was hyped and showing passion and joy and I got penalized for that,\u201d Bueckers said at practice on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Bueckers then joked that she would have done a lot more if she knew that was going to earn her a tech.<\/p>\n
The former UConn great went on to say that she understands that officials have a hard job.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know they\u2019re putting an emphasis on controlling the game more, not letting it get to be a bloodbath as much as it was last year,\u201d she said. \u201cSo I feel like they\u2019re putting an emphasis on that this season.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clark said that she helped Bueckers get it rescinded<\/p>\n
\u201cI gave her a little something to send in with it,\u201d Clark said. \u201cI just felt it wasn\u2019t warranted. If I\u2019m going to win money out of her I want it to be legit. I want to be able to sleep at night. I don\u2019t want that it\u2019s not deserving to get her money.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bueckers hopes that officials can let players show their competitive side in games.<\/p>\n
\u201cSee that we were down a ton and we\u2019re making a run, so we\u2019re obviously going to be hyped up and showing a bunch of passion and joy and fire, like, that\u2019s what basketball\u2019s all about,\u201d Bueckers said.<\/p>\n
Asked if she ever would want to officiate, Bueckers smiled and said no.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would never want to be a ref. It\u2019s a really extremely hard job. and they get criticized just as much as the players,\u201d she said. \u201cSo, it\u2019s tough to manage some times.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Paige Bueckers was happy her technical foul from Friday night\u2019s game against Atlanta was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[12190,252682,49,48,200422,4658,200416,226689,233381,82,630],"class_list":["post-691281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-alysha-clark","tag-bueckers-wings-technical-rescinded","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40778-ap-connecticut-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691281","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=691281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}