Her star was born less than 10 miles from the Target Center in St. Louis Park and Hopkins High School. She knows how the ball bounces on this floor and she is intimately familiar with how the cheers and boos echo off the walls here.

Paige Bueckers had a night to remember during Wednesday's Wings-Lynx game in Minnesota, one that got even more special after the Dallas Wings rookie made some cool history in the process. Dallas dropped their third straight game in the 85–81 loss to the Lynx and are still looking for their first win of the season.

Entering 2025, many analysts pegged the Dallas Wings roster as a dark-horse playoff team, led by the backcourt pairing of No. 1 draft pick Paige Bueckers and four-time WNBA All-Star Arike Ogunbowale.