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Already at a difficult start in the young WNBA season, Dallas Wings will undoubtedly be their best player.
Friday, the team announced that Paige Bueckers, the overall choice n ° 1 of this year’s draft in Uconn, was placed in a concussion protocol.
This decision reached after the defeat of the Wings 97-92 against Angel Reese and the Sky of Chicago Thursday evening – it was the first victory of the sky of the season.
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Dallas Wings goalkeeper Paige Bueckers, dribble during the match against Chicago sky in Wintrust Arena in Chicago on Thursday. (Images Patrick Gorski-Imagn)
Development will force her to miss at least two games.
The team did not provide specific details on what led to the move, and we do not know what prompted Bueckers to get into the protocol. She collected 15 points, eight assists and five rebounds in Thursday’s match.
Bueckers will not play in Dallas’ home match on Saturday against the sky or in Seattle against the storm on Tuesday evening. It will be reassessed after that.
Dallas lost five of his first six games to start the season. Bueckers has an average of 14.7 points, a summit of 6.7 assists and 2.0 interruptions per game during its professional beginnings while playing 33.9 minutes per match, also the most team.
It is also classified in second position and third in rebounds.
Dallas Wings goalkeeper Paige Bueckers talks to Chris Koclanes head coach in the match against Minnesota Lynx at College Park Center in Arlington, Texas, May 16. (AP photo / Richard W. Rodriguez)
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Bueckers was planned to be the first choice of this year for some time in the middle of a record career in Uconn, even as a torn ACL cost him the 2022-23 season.
She collected an average of 19.8 points per match for the Huskies, the most in the history of the school. Bueckers also had the third most important career points in the history of the madness of women’s march. She finished her race in Uconn with a title in April, after doing the Final Four every season.
Paige Bueckers poses with the WNBA commissioner, Cathy Engelbert, after being selected with the n ° 1 choice in total by the Wings of Dallas during the WNBA 2025 draft at the hangar in Hudson Yards in New York on April 14. (Images of Vincent Carchietta-Imagn)
It has actually been nine years since the previous title of Uconn, their longest section of this type since he won their first in 1995.
