{"id":152285,"date":"2025-09-12T20:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/152285\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T20:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:45:06","slug":"lynxs-courtney-williams-does-everything-with-great-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/152285\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynx&#8217;s Courtney Williams \u2018does everything with great energy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">Before Thursday\u2019s game, Reeve was asked about Williams\u2019 influence as a true character among teammates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cCourtney has a very natural disposition that is happy \u2014 it\u2019s real, it\u2019s authentic,&#8221; Reeve said. \u201cIt\u2019s not just sometimes when you see her, because she comes the same every day, and when she doesn\u2019t you\u2019re worried \u2026 well, that [she] didn\u2019t get enough sleep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cShe gives this team a lot of confidence. She\u2019s always hyping them, and she believes in them deeply. They know that in her words and her actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">This is straight from the heart \u2014 and maybe, more so, the gut \u2014 from Courtney Williams and it is fantastic. Linking it here might not meet the newspaper\u2019s standards for avoiding profanity, but you can find it and take in the journey for a self-described \u201cBlack masculine woman from Folkston, Georgia\u201d to WNBA excellence, with all her blemishes, the obstacles and now the triumphs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">And near the end of this gigantic essay, Courtney turns straight from small-town Georgia poignant:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before Thursday\u2019s game, Reeve was asked about Williams\u2019 influence as a true character among teammates. \u201cCourtney has a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-152285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}