Paige Bueckers seemed destined for everything. She arrived in Dallas as the top pick in the 2025 WNBA Draft, already a champion, a national name, and fully expecting her UConn dominance to carry straight into the pros. But within weeks, reality hit harder than she imagined. The league was faster, tougher, and far less forgiving, and it isn’t easy to carry the Dallas Wings as it felt with the Huskies.

“Yeah, it’s hard. I went from being the vet or the senior on the team to where everybody looked to me as the voice, as the leader, to where I’m coming into a new organization with a lot of new coaching staff, mostly new team, new GM. and I’m a rookie,” The Dallas Wings’ rookie opens about how hard it is to make a place in a professional hierarchy.

Though Bueckers played well at an individual

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