{"id":17546,"date":"2025-06-26T23:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T23:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/17546\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T23:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T23:25:11","slug":"paige-bueckers-sends-strong-message-on-caitlin-clark-before-fever-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/17546\/","title":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers Sends Strong Message on Caitlin Clark Before Fever Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paige Bueckers Sends Strong Message on Caitlin Clark Before Fever Game<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Paige Bueckers entered the WNBA with high expectations after an incredible career with the UConn Huskies at the collegiate level.<\/p>\n

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Bueckers has certainly felt pressure in her first season with the Dallas Wings just like last year’s No. 1 overall pick, Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever.<\/p>\n

Clark was one of the most highly anticipated rookies in WNBA history and wound up living up to the potential, winning Rookie of the Year and being named a WNBA All-Star in her first year in the league.<\/p>\n

It’s Bueckers’ time to put on a show for fans.<\/p>\n

The Wings guard recently spoke on the pressure of being a young athlete in the social media world, where immediate success is expected.<\/p>\n

Bueckers mentioned that Clark has dealt with pressure with grace.<\/p>\n

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“I would just say, she handles it with grace and the pressure that she\u2019s put on every single night to perform at the level that she does, it\u2019s inhumane really, to expect people to be perfect and to not have off games or off nights,\u201d Bueckers said. “It\u2019s unfair to have to deal with that but I\u2019m sure she has a great team around her and great people to help her. I know she\u2019s a great person at dealing with it.”<\/p>\n

Caitlin Clark became a star in the women’s basketball landscape during her time with the Iowa Hawkeyes. She finished her four-year collegiate career as the men’s and women’s all-time leading scorer with 3,951 points.<\/p>\n

Now she’s looking to lead the Indiana Fever to postseason success, having already established herself as one of the best guards in the WNBA.<\/p>\n

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Dallas Wings guard Paige Bueckers (left) and Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark.Vincent Carchietta&comma; Grace Hollars-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Caitlin Clark and Paige Beuckers are set for their first matchup since the former UConn star entered the WNBA.<\/p>\n

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While the Fever are monitoring a groin injury from Clark, Indiana will be facing the Dallas Wings on Friday at 7 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

Related: Dallas Wings Turn Heads With Big News for Caitlin Clark, Paige Bueckers Game<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Related: Dallas Wings Turn Heads with Paige Bueckers Announcement on Friday<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 26, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers Sends Strong Message on Caitlin Clark Before Fever Game originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Paige Bueckers…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[233,2470,234,1379,2471,62,67,132,68,232,1516],"class_list":{"0":"post-17546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-caitlin-clark","9":"tag-dallas-wings","10":"tag-indiana-fever","11":"tag-iowa-hawkeyes","12":"tag-paige-bueckers","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-wnba","18":"tag-wnba-history"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114752253168951040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}