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Already disconnected to a unsmooth commencement successful the young WNBA season, the Dallas Wings are going to beryllium without arguably their champion player.
The squad connected Friday announced that Paige Bueckers, the No. 1 wide prime successful this year's draught retired of UConn, was enactment successful concussion protocol.
The determination came aft the Wings' 97-92 nonaccomplishment to Angel Reese and the Chicago Sky connected Thursday nighttime — it was the Sky's archetypal triumph of the season.
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Dallas Wings defender Paige Bueckers dribbles during the crippled against the Chicago Sky astatine Wintrust Arena successful Chicago connected Thursday. (Patrick Gorski-Imagn Images)
The improvement volition unit her to miss astatine slightest 2 games.
The squad didn't supply immoderate circumstantial details connected what led to the move, and it's unclear what prompted Bueckers to spell into protocol. She had 15 points, 8 assists and 5 rebounds successful Thursday's game.
Bueckers won't play successful Dallas' location crippled connected Saturday against the Sky oregon successful Seattle against the Storm connected Tuesday night. She volition beryllium re-evaluated aft that.
Dallas has mislaid 5 of their archetypal six games to statesman the season. Bueckers has averaged 14.7 points, a team-high 6.7 assists and 2.0 steals a crippled successful her nonrecreational debut portion playing 33.9 minutes per game, besides the astir connected the team.
She ranks 2nd successful points and 3rd successful rebounds, arsenic well.
Dallas Wings defender Paige Bueckers talks with caput manager Chris Koclanes during the crippled against the Minnesota Lynx astatine College Park Center successful Arlington, Texas, connected May 16. (AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez)
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Bueckers had been slated to beryllium the apical prime of this year's draught for immoderate clip amid a record-setting vocation astatine UConn, adjacent arsenic a torn ACL outgo her the 2022-23 season.
She averaged 19.8 points per crippled for the Huskies, the astir successful schoolhouse history. Bueckers besides had the third-most vocation points successful women's March Madness history. She ended her tally astatine UConn with a rubric backmost successful April, having made the Final Four successful each season.
Paige Bueckers poses with WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert aft being selected with the No. 1 wide prime by the Dallas Wings successful the 2025 WNBA Draft astatine The Shed astatine Hudson Yards successful New York connected April 14. (Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images)
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It had really been 9 years since UConn's erstwhile title, their longest specified agelong since winning their archetypal successful 1995.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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