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Message: [QUOTE="BRS24, post: 5274848, member: 197"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://time.com/7281908/paige-bueckers-wnba-dallas-wings-interview/[/URL] Some interesting tidbits: [INDENT][I]“I don’t know if a player has felt more pressure to validate a collegiate career with a championship than Paige has,” says Wings executive vice president and general manager Curt Miller, Bueckers’ new boss. “How she navigated that and thrived through that was really, really special to witness.”[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Basketball, however, was an early favorite. When she was 6, Bob took his daughter to a Minnesota Lynx–Los Angeles Sparks game: Candace Parker was a rookie for the Sparks and would go on to win both Rookie of the Year and league MVP that 2008 season. “When I get to the league, I want to be her teammate,” Bueckers told her dad. (So close. Parker retired right before last season.)[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Bueckers missed nearly three months of her sophomore season because of a knee injury but came back before the NCAA tournament to help UConn reach the championship game, where the Huskies lost to South Carolina. I[B]n retrospect, Bueckers says rushing back from that injury did more harm than good.[/B] “I was just so dead set on returning, and I don’t think my body was necessarily ready for that.” [/I][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]