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Paige Bueckers turned so many heads in her first year in the WNBA with the Dallas Wings; in her rookie campaign, she already averaged 19.2 points per game on 47/33/89 shooting splits. It was head-scratching when Bueckers wasn’t able to win the 2025 WNBA Rookie of the Year award in unanimous fashion. But with the WNBA on a hiatus, Bueckers is showing out in Unrivaled, a 3-on-3 basketball league for women.
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Even against incredible opposition, the Wings star is still able to separate herself from the rest of the pack. She finished with 24 points on the night on 7-15 shooting from the field in a win for the Breeze against the Phantom, a team with the likes of Kelsey Plum, Aliyah Boston, and Tiffany Hayes leading the way.
Bueckers is an incredible shot-maker, and in the first half of that contest, she drilled a sidestep three-pointer at the buzzer to give her team a five-point lead at the halftime interval.
Only 24 years of age, Bueckers has the entire basketball world at the palm of her hands. She is a serial winner as well, so no one should be surprised that she’s playing winning basketball wherever she goes.
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Now, the Wings, while watching Bueckers play, have to be feeling a sense of urgency to build a winning roster around their franchise talent.
Wings’ Paige Bueckers is in for a huge Year 2
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Bueckers looked like a woman amongst girls in her first year in the WNBA, and now that she’s already fully acclimated to the physicality of the professional league, a huge Year 2 appears to be in the cards for her.
The Wings have a golden chance to add talent to the roster anyway; they won the first overall pick of the 2026 WNBA Draft, and many have them selecting 6’7″ Lauren Betts to give Bueckers her dance partner on the pick-and-roll.
