{"id":231032,"date":"2025-09-16T09:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/231032\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T09:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:36:16","slug":"page-bueckers-differs-from-past-ap-rookie-of-the-year-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/231032\/","title":{"rendered":"Page Bueckers differs from past AP Rookie of the Year winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t dwell upon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courant.com\/2025\/09\/13\/former-uconn-star-paige-bueckers-named-ap-rookie-of-the-year-huskies-headline-all-wnba-teams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paige Bueckers<\/a> setting the rookie mark with 44 points in a game recently. Or that she doesn\u2019t thrive on logo three pointers.<\/p>\n<p>What sets her apart is her consistency and that she rarely takes unwise or \u201cbad\u201d shots. I also appreciate the backstory of how she worked her way back from serious injuries at UConn.<\/p>\n<p>Bueckers\u2019 award seems anticlimactic because we knew all along she\u2019d win it. But she deserves the recognition for hitting the ground running,\u00a0particularly in a year that the WNBA\u2019s other top stars missed time with injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Silbert,\u00a0New York, NY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t dwell upon Paige Bueckers setting the rookie mark with 44 points in a game recently. Or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":231033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[2341,124541,4552,1578,2738,2472,51254,2470,7001,32262,425,1519,2336,2471,62,23320,9767,67,132,68,232,106332,124540,3357],"class_list":{"0":"post-231032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-aja-wilson","9":"tag-all-wnba","10":"tag-alyssa-thomas","11":"tag-associated-press","12":"tag-connecticut","13":"tag-connecticut-sun","14":"tag-ct","15":"tag-dallas-wings","16":"tag-hartford-courant","17":"tag-leila-lacan","18":"tag-local","19":"tag-minnesota-lynx","20":"tag-napheesa-collier","21":"tag-paige-bueckers","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-uconn","24":"tag-uconn-huskies","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-wnba","29":"tag-wnba-mvp","30":"tag-wnba-rookie-of-the-year","31":"tag-womens-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115213302724610219","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231032","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=231032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}