Paige Bueckers, who is enjoying a fantastic start to her rookie season in the WNBA, recently named two of her favorite players in the NBA. <\/p>\n
On the Close Friends Only podcast, the Dallas Wings star hyped Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry and Dallas Mavericks star Kyrie Irving. <\/p>\n
“(Curry) and Kyrie are my favorites,” Bueckers said (5:13 mark). “Just must-watch TV every single time they play.” <\/p>\n
Curry and Irving are two of the most entertaining players of their generation, so it’s no surprise to see Bueckers name them as her favorite players. <\/p>\n
Looking at Bueckers’ game, it’s clear she has taken some inspiration from the two stars. The No. 1 overall pick possesses some of the dribbling and finishing abilities of Irving while also boasting the limitless range of Curry. <\/p>\n
Those skills have helped her on her way to a Rookie of the Year-worthy campaign, as Bueckers is putting up 18.4 points, 5.4 assists, 4.1 rebounds and 1.8 steals per game this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers, who is enjoying a fantastic start to her rookie season in the WNBA, recently named two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-71244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71244","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=71244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}