{"id":834629,"date":"2026-09-02T23:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T23:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/834629\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T23:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T23:36:10","slug":"paige-bueckers-and-caitlin-clark-put-rivalry-talk-aside-with-telling-team-usa-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/834629\/","title":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers and Caitlin Clark put rivalry talk aside with telling Team USA moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">Forget the rivalry talk. Caitlin Clark and Paige Bueckers just gave fans a glimpse of what they can do together for Team USA.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">During practice in Berlin, Clark launched a full-court pass that found Bueckers on the other end, showing an immediate connection between two of the biggest stars of the WNBA\u2019s new generation.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">Clark and Bueckers have spent years being compared as two of basketball\u2019s brightest young stars.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">Now, instead of facing each other, they\u2019ll make their FIBA Women\u2019s World Cup debuts together in a Team USA uniform.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">With both players now sharing the court, fans are getting their first look at a partnership that could help define the next generation of USA Basketball.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">And that full-court connection might be just the beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forget the rivalry talk. Caitlin Clark and Paige Bueckers just gave fans a glimpse of what they can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-834629","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\/834629","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=834629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}