UConn women's basketball star Paige Bueckers suffered a torn ACL in her left knee during a pickup game Monday and has been ruled out for the 2022-23 season.
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I read this and I went “no, ESPN somehow screwed up and is running an old article“ and then I read it again, and then a third time before it finally sunk in. My heart really breaks for this kid. This has to be absolutely devastating for her.
Same, except it was when I saw the tweet from UConn. Used to sports injury news being broken by Woj or Schefter or Passan or reporters. This one was presented so matter of factly but the news was so shocking that I was like, oh, that's not real, whew.
Feel awful for her but also teammates, coaches, fans. Been watching her since 8th grade back in MN and there's no one who's more fun to watch in college hoops, men or women, thanks to her floor game, passing, passion, defense, shooting, driving, the whole package. Being on the East Coast have loved having SNY to be able to watch most of their games and winter nights simply won't be the same this year. Full confidence she can come back with the way rehabs and medicine and surgeries work now in sports, but every time she stops or plants or jumps now there's always going to be a fear that it could happen again.
