{"id":838685,"date":"2026-09-06T18:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T18:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838685\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T18:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T18:32:09","slug":"paige-bueckers-left-stunned-by-zhang-ziyus-towering-height-at-fiba-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838685\/","title":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers left stunned by Zhang Ziyu\u2019s towering height at FIBA World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">Paige Bueckers left many in awe during Team USA\u2019s first game of the FIBA Women\u2019s Basketball World Cup, but her interaction with China\u2019s Zhang Ziyu quickly became one of the most talked-about moments. The 7-foot-3 center towered over Bueckers, who couldn\u2019t hide her surprise and even used her hand to emphasize the huge height difference. The moment caught FIBA\u2019s attention too, as the organization shared photos of the pair, including a cartoon version, and jokingly asked Bueckers to \u201cspill the conversation.\u201d Ziyu seemed just as amused, leaning down to hear Bueckers better as the Wings guard appeared eager to get answers to her questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers left many in awe during Team USA\u2019s first game of the FIBA Women\u2019s Basketball World Cup,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-838685","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\/838685","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=838685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}