Bueckers has famously professed her love for Shirley Temples, a drink combining ginger ale and grenadine that is typically topped with a maraschino cherry. On Wednesday, Nike will release a \u201cShirley Buckets\u201d colorway for the company’s GT Cut 4 basketball shoe, which is colored bright red and white to mirror the famous drink and features a pair of cherries on the back heel.<\/p>\n
The following day, Gatorade will re-release a Shirley Temple flavor of the popular sports drink, which is labeled as “Paige’s Favorite Flavor” \u2014 a player edition capsule will also be available for $65 that includes a Shirley Temple Gatorade bottle, co-branded Nike shirt, and a towel. Bueckers signed a groundbreaking NIL deal with Gatorade while at UConn in 2021, and she first debuted the Shirley Temple flavor\u00a0at a postgame press conference last season<\/a>, which was later made available as a limited release.\u00a0<\/p>\n “It’s Shirley Temple, it’s like my favorite drink of all time,”\u00a0Bueckers said last year after the game. “So they put it in Gatorade flavor. So, pretty fire.”<\/p>\n The drink was popularized in Hollywood during the 1930s and was associated with popular child actress Shirley Temple, who has since expressed her distaste for the non-alcoholic beverage. Bueckers played a role in repopularizing the nearly century-old drink with a message on social media platform X that read, “I know a Shirley Temple hate to see me coming.”<\/p>\n Another drink in Bueckers’ soft-drink rotation will also be represented on Nike shoes in the coming months. The company announced that Paige Bueckers x Nike GT Cut 4 “Baja Blast” will be released Oct. 9.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bueckers has famously professed her love for Shirley Temples, a drink combining ginger ale and grenadine that is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[86570,150,152,151,86569],"class_list":["post-397351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-all-daily-sites","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-ct-insider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}