{"id":65796,"date":"2025-08-07T19:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/65796\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T19:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:11:08","slug":"ucla-star-lauren-betts-puts-the-world-on-notice-with-new-nil-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/65796\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA star Lauren Betts puts the world on notice with new NIL deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">After withdrawing from the 2025 WNBA Draft, UCLA senior center Lauren Betts will enter her final season in college with high expectations. Following a Final Four loss to the UConn Huskies in the NCAA national tournament, Betts and the Bruins women\u2019s basketball team have unfinished business.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">Besides trying to get back at Geno Auriemma and the Huskies, they\u2019ll face off against the JuJu Watkins-led USC Trojans in their quest for that national <a href=\"http:\/\/bolavip.com\/en\/college-basketball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"break-word font-articleLinkText text-articleLinkText hover:text-articleLinkTextHover hover:bg-articleLinkTextHoverBg cursor-pointer border-solid border-b-articleLinkTextHover\">college basketball<\/a> championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">Betts, who comes from averaging 20.2 points, 9.5 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 2.9 blocks per game and shooting 64.8% from the field and 62% from the free-throw line, is motivated to give her 100% for a Bruins squad that was close to making it to the big game. Betts will take on this season after signing a major NIL deal to become a jewelry brand ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Betts announced NIL deal with jewelry brand on social media\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">Lauren Betts took to Instagram to announce her brand-new deal with jewelry brand Gorjana. She shared a series of photos and a clip, which included a childhood picture and a caption to prepare fans about what\u2019s coming for her collegiate career.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">\u201cI grew a lot as a leader last season, and I\u2019m looking forward to bringing that same standard and level of play to my senior season,\u201d Betts said.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"break-word\">After spending her freshman season at Stanford, Betts joined UCLA, where she unlocked her potential. With another impressive season from the center, the Bruins would be a serious threat to the Huskies.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"leading-none\" href=\"https:\/\/bolavip.com\/en\/staff\/ecova\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/28922ba4-b8a7-4602-9c17-69523f2714ee.webp.webp\" alt=\"ernesto cova\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"rounded-full\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[14px] leading-[20px] min-h-[72px] md:min-h-[52px] mt-[10px] font-authorSignatureDescription hidden md:block\">Ernesto Cova is a bilingual (English-Spanish) sports writer with over eight years of experience covering major leagues such as the NBA, NFL, MLB, College Basketball, and international soccer. He rejoined Bolavip US as a collaborator after initially contributing to the platform since its inception in 2020, where he also served as a sub-editor in 2023. Ernesto specializes in daily sports news, producing 100% original content that includes trade rumors, player and team rankings, and more. Before returning to Bolavip US, he contributed to Fadeaway World and The Cold Wire, with a primary focus on the NBA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After withdrawing from the 2025 WNBA Draft, UCLA senior center Lauren Betts will enter her final season in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99,17392],"class_list":{"0":"post-65796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-ucla-bruins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65796","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=65796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}