{"id":819724,"date":"2026-05-24T21:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/819724\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T21:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:29:15","slug":"wnba-rescinds-paige-bueckers-technical-foul-from-wings-dream-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/819724\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA rescinds Paige Bueckers\u2019 technical foul from Wings-Dream game"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014\u00a0Paige Bueckers<\/a> was happy her technical foul from Friday night\u2019s game against Atlanta was rescinded by the league on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Not only did it save her the $500 fine, but more importantly it kept her with none for the season which was important for her \u201cbet\u201d with Dallas teammate Alysha Clark. The two have a friendly wager that Bueckers wouldn’t get one this season.<\/p>\n

“I’m glad to get that one back,” Bueckers said smiling before the Dallas Wings<\/a> faced New York.<\/p>\n

Bueckers was given the technical foul as her team was rallying against Atlanta<\/a> and the second-year player was clapping aggressively. She was astonished to learn that she had received a technical for it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was hyped and showing passion and joy and I got penalized for that,\u201d Bueckers said at practice on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Bueckers then joked that she would have done a lot more if she knew that was going to earn her a tech.<\/p>\n

The former UConn great went on to say that she understands that officials have a hard job.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know they\u2019re putting an emphasis on controlling the game more, not letting it get to be a bloodbath as much as it was last year,\u201d she said. \u201cSo I feel like they\u2019re putting an emphasis on that this season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clark said that she helped Bueckers get it rescinded<\/p>\n

\u201cI gave her a little something to send in with it,\u201d Clark said. \u201cI just felt it wasn\u2019t warranted. If I\u2019m going to win money out of her I want it to be legit. I want to be able to sleep at night. I don\u2019t want that it\u2019s not deserving to get her money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bueckers hopes that officials can let players show their competitive side in games.<\/p>\n

\u201cSee that we were down a ton and we\u2019re making a run, so we\u2019re obviously going to be hyped up and showing a bunch of passion and joy and fire, like, that\u2019s what basketball\u2019s all about,\u201d Bueckers said.<\/p>\n

Asked if she ever would want to officiate, Bueckers smiled and said no.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would never want to be a ref. It\u2019s a really extremely hard job. and they get criticized just as much as the players,\u201d she said. \u201cSo, it\u2019s tough to manage some times.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014\u00a0Paige Bueckers was happy her technical foul from Friday night\u2019s game against Atlanta was rescinded…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":819725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49],"tags":[347,62,337140,329726,67,132,68,232],"class_list":["post-819724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-article","tag-sports","tag-tp-wnba","tag-tp-paige-bueckers","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wnba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116631684210731051","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819724","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=819724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}