{"id":731992,"date":"2026-06-29T01:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T01:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/731992\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T01:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T01:19:09","slug":"paige-bueckers-quickly-defends-teammate-jessica-shepard-after-heated-exchange-with-olivia-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/731992\/","title":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers quickly defends teammate Jessica Shepard after heated exchange with Olivia Miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">Paige Bueckers has built her reputation as one of the WNBA&#8217;s premier guards, but she also showed that she has no problem standing up for her teammates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">During a heated moment on the court, Olivia Miles was seen exchanging words with Dallas Wings veteran Jessica Shepard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">The verbal back-and-forth appeared to escalate as Miles continued talking to Shepard, but Bueckers quickly stepped into the situation after overhearing the exchange.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">The second-year guard immediately inserted herself between the two players, making it clear she wasn&#8217;t going to let the confrontation continue without a response.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">According to those who witnessed the moment, Bueckers confronted Miles directly, challenging her to back up the trash talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers has built her reputation as one of the WNBA&#8217;s premier guards, but she also showed that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-731992","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\/731992","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=731992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}