{"id":223791,"date":"2025-10-14T10:50:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/223791\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:50:23","slug":"paige-bueckers-named-wnba-rookie-of-the-year-after-standout-season-with-the-dallas-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/223791\/","title":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers named WNBA Rookie of the Year after standout season with the Dallas Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Wings star Paige Bueckers is filling up her trophy case.<\/p>\n<p>The WNBA announced Tuesday that Bueckers was named the Kia WNBA Rookie of the Year. The award was voted on by a national panel of sportswriters and broadcasters.<\/p>\n<p>Just last week, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/paige-bueckers-dallas-wings-ap-rookie-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Associated Press awarded Bueckers<\/a> its Rookie of the Year honor for the WNBA. She was also named to the AP&#8217;s All WNBA Second Team and was a unanimous selection to the AP&#8217;s All-Rookie Team.<\/p>\n<p>The accolades come months after Bueckers wrapped up her outstanding college career by helping lead the UConn Huskies to NCAA Women&#8217;s Basketball championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/paige-bueckers-wnba-draft-dallas-wings-selection\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dallas Wings&#8217; No. 1 pick<\/a>\u00a0averaged 19.2 points and 5.4 assists in her first season. She finished with the third most points ever by a rookie and second most assists.<\/p>\n<p>Bueckers also had a 44-point game on Aug. 20, the highest scoring game of anyone in the WNBA this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Wings star Paige Bueckers is filling up her trophy case. The WNBA announced Tuesday that Bueckers was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2834,99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-223791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-dallas-wings","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223791","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=223791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}