{"id":696968,"date":"2026-04-04T01:29:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T01:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/696968\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T01:29:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T01:29:25","slug":"how-did-kiki-rice-and-cason-wallace-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/696968\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did Kiki Rice and Cason Wallace Meet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As Kiki Rice competes on UCLA\u2019s women\u2019s basketball team for a spot in the national championships on Sunday, cheering her on will be her NBA player boyfriend, Cason Wallace.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been around a lot of them because we\u2019re all the same age,\u201d Wallace told The Oklahoman<\/a> about Rice\u2019s teammates. \u201cIt\u2019s fun seeing them do their thing, win and have fun out there on the court.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wallace, 22, and Rice, also 22, met at the inaugural Jr. NBA World Championship in Orlando when they were preteens. In 2022, they were pictured together at an event for high school basketball players, so they clearly stayed friends over the years.<\/p>\n

\"HIGHIcon Sportswire\/\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

From L-R, All Americans Cason Wallace, Kiki Rice, and Justine Pissott.<\/p>\n

According to reports, Wallace and Rice started dating last year, and went public with their relationship after the Oklahoma City Thunder won the NBA Championship last year with an interview on \u201cWAG Talk\u201d:<\/p>\n

They soon started making public appearances. In July, they attended the ESPYs together:<\/p>\n

And in August, they attended a Dallas Wings vs. Washington Mystics WNBA game together<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Rice, a senior, is a top WNBA prospect in the draft later this month. She made history as Jordan Brand\u2019s first NIL athlete. \u201cAs a little girl growing up, I watched a ton of basketball and any basketball fan knows the significance of Michael Jordan when it comes to this game,\u201d she told Complex<\/a> in 2024. \u201cTo partner with them and to be able to be the first Jordan brand NIL athlete meant a lot to me. Not only because it was something I could never have thought would happen but also just because of the opportunities that I\u2019ve been able to have since I\u2019ve been partnered with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued, \u201cThe rooms that I\u2019ve been able to be in, the people that I\u2019ve been able to meet, it\u2019s something that is really special and I\u2019ll value always. The relationships I\u2019ve had from that partnership have been something that I think will be lifelong relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Emily Burack (she\/her) is the Deputy Digital Editor for Town & Country, where she covers entertainment, celebrities, the royals, and a wide range of other topics. Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at Hey Alma, a Jewish culture site. Follow her @emburack on Instagram, Twitter, and other social media platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 min read As Kiki Rice competes on UCLA\u2019s women\u2019s basketball team for a spot in the national…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[7,35734,87692,10990,10989,6,310,475,179,3966,3965,87694,87691,87693,312],"class_list":{"0":"post-696968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-content-type-news","10":"tag-contentid-256efa75-0794-4b08-89bb-13bd125dadef","11":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","12":"tag-locale-us","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-oklahoma","15":"tag-oklahoma-city","16":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","17":"tag-oklahomacity","18":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","19":"tag-read_time-2","20":"tag-shorttitle-uclas-kiki-rice-dating-thunders-cason-wallace","21":"tag-subsection-sporting","22":"tag-thunder"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116343851684862596","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}