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Paige Bueckers drains half-court buzzer-beater to extremity fractional (0:49)
Paige Bueckers steals the stone and splashes a much-needed half-court buzzer-beater going into halftime for the Wings. (0:49)
Anthony GharibJun 28, 2025, 12:26 PM ET
Dallas Wings prima Paige Bueckers played 1 of her champion games arsenic a nonrecreational connected Friday successful beforehand of her favourite player: Mavericks prima Kyrie Irving.
Irving sat courtside arsenic Bueckers had 27 points, 6 assists, 2 blocks and 2 steals successful a 94-86 nonaccomplishment to the Indiana Fever. Caitlin Clark missed the matchup owed to a groin injury.
The erstwhile UConn Huskies prima had zero turnovers, becoming the archetypal subordinate successful league past to grounds a crippled with 25-plus points, 5-plus assists, 2-plus steals, 2-plus blocks and zero turnovers.
Irving and Bueckers met connected the tribunal postgame and walked disconnected together, with Irving's girl wearing a Bueckers jersey adjacent to them. Bueckers past signed a jersey for Irving arsenic the 2 posed for a picture.
Bueckers called it "pretty surreal" to conscionable the NBA champion, who is idiosyncratic she has looked up to and has been her favourite subordinate "since I was truly really young."
"So for him to travel retired and enactment us, enactment women's basketball, person his girl there, get to conscionable him," she said postgame. "He's been a large member fig for me, and to yet conscionable him successful person, it was a large moment."
Bueckers besides added that Irving is "probably 1 of the astir unguardable radical to ever play the game," serving arsenic inspiration for her ain game.
Newly selected Mavs No. 1 prime Cooper Flagg was besides successful attendance, arsenic good arsenic Detroit Pistons prima Cade Cunningham and Dallas Cowboys prima Micah Parsons.
