{"id":160585,"date":"2025-09-16T09:57:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/160585\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T09:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:57:06","slug":"page-bueckers-differs-from-past-ap-rookie-of-the-year-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/160585\/","title":{"rendered":"Page Bueckers differs from past AP Rookie of the Year winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t dwell upon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courant.com\/2025\/09\/13\/former-uconn-star-paige-bueckers-named-ap-rookie-of-the-year-huskies-headline-all-wnba-teams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paige Bueckers<\/a> setting the rookie mark with 44 points in a game recently. Or that she doesn\u2019t thrive on logo three pointers.<\/p>\n<p>What sets her apart is her consistency and that she rarely takes unwise or \u201cbad\u201d shots. I also appreciate the backstory of how she worked her way back from serious injuries at UConn.<\/p>\n<p>Bueckers\u2019 award seems anticlimactic because we knew all along she\u2019d win it. But she deserves the recognition for hitting the ground running,\u00a0particularly in a year that the WNBA\u2019s other top stars missed time with injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Silbert,\u00a0New York, NY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t dwell upon Paige Bueckers setting the rookie mark with 44 points in a game recently. Or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[650,97679,15447,2724,2000,4384,49683,2834,15862,27038,3729,1077,3250,2833,99,15857,31478,434,79168,97678,2088],"class_list":["post-160585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-aja-wilson","tag-all-wnba","tag-alyssa-thomas","tag-associated-press","tag-connecticut","tag-connecticut-sun","tag-ct","tag-dallas-wings","tag-hartford-courant","tag-leila-lacan","tag-local","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-napheesa-collier","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-sports","tag-uconn","tag-uconn-huskies","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-mvp","tag-wnba-rookie-of-the-year","tag-womens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160585","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=160585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}