{"id":418875,"date":"2026-01-20T14:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/418875\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:42:10","slug":"unrivaled-paige-bueckers-wins-50k-free-throw-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/418875\/","title":{"rendered":"Unrivaled: Paige Bueckers wins $50K Free Throw Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A banner debut Unrivaled season got even better for Paige Bueckers on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Bueckers established her new Unrivaled career high, scoring 37 points on 14-for-19 shooting, including 5-for-8 from 3. She also sunk the game-winning jumper, securing an 83-64 win for Breeze that snapped the club\u2019s two-game losing streak. Her masterful performance also included eight boards, five assists and a block.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And, almost as (or maybe more) importantly, she made both of her free throws, with her 2-for-2 effort extending her perfection from the line to 13-for-13, and therefore allowing her to claim the first-ever Unrivaled Free Throw Challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">By preserving her free throw perfection, Paige earns the $50,000 prize. Although, she resisted revealing how she plans to spend (or save) the $50K.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">By not missing on Monday night, Paige prevented Phantom\u2019s Tiffany Hayes, who just met the required six attempts, from taking the Free Throw Challenge and the $50K prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A banner debut Unrivaled season got even better for Paige Bueckers on Monday night. Bueckers established her new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,18419,434],"class_list":["post-418875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-unrivaled","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418875","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=418875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}