{"id":238785,"date":"2025-09-19T11:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T11:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/238785\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T11:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T11:23:16","slug":"open-thread-stephon-castle-and-paige-bueckers-first-players-from-same-college-to-win-the-rookie-of-the-year-in-the-same-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/238785\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread: Stephon Castle and Paige Bueckers first players from same college to win the Rookie of the Year in the same season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">San Antonio Spurs guard Stephon Castle picked up the Rookie of the Year honors for the 2024-2025 NBA season. The former UConn Huskies guard rode into the NBA as the fourth overall pick after winning the 2024 NCAA title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Castle followed Victor Wembanyama giving the Spurs their fourth ROTY honors and their first back-to-back trophies.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On Tuesday, the WNBA announced Dallas Wings guard Paige Bueckers, who was the first overall draft pick, claimed the WNBA Rookie of the Year honors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Buckers, like Castle, attended UConn, and like Castle, she won an NCAA title with her Huskies. In her rookie season, Bueckers averaged 19.s points, 5.4 assists, and 3.9 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">UConn, already known for their basketball program, currently have 8 former students in the NBA including four from the 2024 title team. There were 15 former players in the WNBA this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Welcome to the Thread. Join in the conversation, start your own discussion, and share your thoughts. This is the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nba\/teams\/san-antonio-spurs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Spurs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>Spurs<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0community,\u00a0your\u00a0Spurs community. Thanks for being here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poundingtherock.com\/community-guidelines\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:community guidelines;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>community guidelines<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0apply which should remind everyone to be cool, avoid personal attacks, not to troll and to watch the language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs guard Stephon Castle picked up the Rookie of the Year honors for the 2024-2025 NBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":238786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1260,1317,1315,1316,2471,3138,62,12551,22721,9767,67,132,68,4714,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-238785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-paige-bueckers","14":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-stephon-castle","17":"tag-the-spurs","18":"tag-uconn-huskies","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-victor-wembanyama","23":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115230710292879853","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238785","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=238785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}