{"id":428597,"date":"2026-01-25T07:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T07:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/428597\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T07:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T07:48:08","slug":"former-wnba-player-from-nebraska-makes-a-stop-at-youth-basketball-tournament-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/428597\/","title":{"rendered":"Former WNBA player from Nebraska makes a stop at youth basketball tournament &#8211; CENTRAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">\u201cYeah, I mean, I think growing up, like, the WNBA was a very new thing, you know?\u201d Wilkins said. \u201cSo they&#8217;re growing up in a different era when the WNBA is now it&#8217;s pretty big. So I think for them to just be able to see a real live WNBA player, if they&#8217;ve never been to a game, you know. And as I had mentioned, like, I was never a superstar on a WNBA team, but to be on the team and to have a role and to understand and know my role. Just understanding that kids are going through that right now, even in their fifth grade teams, their sixth grade teams.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYeah, I mean, I think growing up, like, the WNBA was a very new thing, you know?\u201d Wilkins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-428597","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\/428597","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=428597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}