{"id":70137,"date":"2026-03-27T04:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/the-strong-silent-type-uconns-standout-is-making-basketball-stardom-look-easy\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T04:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:55:28","slug":"the-strong-silent-type-uconns-standout-is-making-basketball-stardom-look-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/the-strong-silent-type-uconns-standout-is-making-basketball-stardom-look-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strong, silent type: UConn\u2019s standout is making basketball stardom look easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Strong has the most jump-off-the-page talent in the women\u2019s game since Caitlin Clark, and UConn greats say she could be the best of them<\/p>\n<p>Former WNBA All-Star turned Boston Celtics executive Allison Feaster was recently asked about the differences between high-level female and male hoopers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very basic example,\u201d the Celtics\u2019 vice-president of team operations and organizational growth told the <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/sarah-strong-and-allison-feaster\/id1838683153?i=1000754449435\">Far From the Tree podcast.<\/a> \u201cBut most of the women have had exposure to different types of leadership. Most of the professionals have four-year degrees and even advanced degrees. Many of the professional women have lived outside of the US. Some of them are parents who are the primary caregiver. That is a very general observation, but I venture to say that\u2019s not the same with the NBA players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/27\/sarah-strong-uconn-basketball-ncaa-tournament\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Strong has the most jump-off-the-page talent in the women\u2019s game since Caitlin Clark, and UConn greats say she could be the best of them Former WNBA All-Star turned Boston Celtics executive Allison Feaster was recently asked about the differences between high-level female and male hoopers. \u201cThis is a very basic example,\u201d the Celtics\u2019 vice-president &#8230; <a title=\"The Strong, silent type: UConn\u2019s standout is making basketball stardom look easy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/the-strong-silent-type-uconns-standout-is-making-basketball-stardom-look-easy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Strong, silent type: UConn\u2019s standout is making basketball stardom look easy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}