{"id":996890,"date":"2026-08-12T22:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T22:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/996890\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T22:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T22:22:17","slug":"paige-bueckers-names-her-former-uconn-teammate-as-most-underrated-in-the-wnba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/996890\/","title":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers names her former UConn teammate as &#8220;most underrated&#8221; in the WNBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/4433730\/paige-bueckers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paige Bueckers<\/a> called her former UConn teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnba.com\/player\/1642822\/kaitlyn-chen\/profile\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaitlyn Chen<\/a> \u201cthe most underrated player\u201d in the WNBA this week.<\/p>\n<p>Bueckers, along with a group of players in the league, was asked by Sports Illustrated who the most underrated WNBA players were and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SInow\/status\/2087268484476445102?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">SI posted the video on X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Bueckers, the choice was easy. In June, Chen \u2013 who comes off the bench for the Golden State Valkyries \u2013 scored 15 points against Bueckers and the Dallas Wings in a 91-80 win. Chen shot 7 for 10 from the floor in 25 minutes of play.<\/p>\n<p>After that June 17 game, Bueckers said in a Bleacher Report TikTok video that Chen\u2019s confidence is what has helped her succeed in the WNBA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing around Kaitlyn, she\u2019s always worked hard, she\u2019s always had it in her, it\u2019s just when the opportunity has been given to her, she\u2019s ran with it,\u201d Bueckers said in the video. \u201cShe\u2019s just confident. She affects the game in so many different ways. But (in June), she was getting downhill, getting penetration, getting to the rim, she has one of the best layup packages I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chen has averaged 7.0 points a game this year, up from just two last year, and is shooting 54 percent from the field. She was a third-round pick in the WNBA Draft last year after coming to UConn from Princeton for her last year of college eligibility and helping the Huskies to their 12th national championship. Bueckers and Chen played for one year together at UConn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers called her former UConn teammate Kaitlyn Chen \u201cthe most underrated player\u201d in the WNBA this week.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":996891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49],"tags":[17963,7000,7001,9770,728,2471,15752,62,9766,67,132,68,232],"class_list":["post-996890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-connecticut-news","tag-ct-news","tag-hartford-courant","tag-kaitlyn-chen","tag-local-news","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-princeton-university","tag-sports","tag-uconn-womens-basketball","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wnba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117084877091696353","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996890","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=996890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/996891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}