{"id":301917,"date":"2026-05-20T21:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/301917\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T21:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:02:09","slug":"paige-bueckers-playing-better-than-ever-moving-up-wnba-record-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/301917\/","title":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers playing better than ever, moving up WNBA record books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just four games into her sophomore season in the\u00a0WNBA, Paige Bueckers<\/a> has already made history.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bueckers\u2019 career points total is the fifth-most through the first 40 games of a career in\u00a0WNBA history.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 2025 WNBA Rookie of the Year didn\u2019t just pick up where she left off after her inaugural professional season \u2014 she’s gotten better. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Bueckers averaged 19.2 points, 3.9 rebounds and 5.4 assists as a rookie last season, shooting 47.7% from the floor. So far in 2026, Bueckers is averaging 20 points, 2.8 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game. She\u2019s been incredibly efficient, shooting 57.4% from the field and 62.5% from 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The phenom is the only player in the WNBA averaging 20-plus points and five-plus assists per game while shooting 50% from the field and 50% from 3, according to\u00a0Landon Thomas of the The Wings Bulletin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wings coach Jose Fernandez said during training camp he wanted to see Bueckers, known for her midrange jumper, take more shots from deep. And she has seemingly accepted that challenge.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She was 4 of 5 from behind the arc on Monday and is 10 of 16 from 3 through four games. It\u2019s early, but that’s a substantial improvement from 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 36 games last season, Bueckers shot 33.1% from deep on 118 attempts. And with 22 assists through four games, she\u2019s on pace to match or eclipse her 194 total assists in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bueckers ranks among the top 10 in the league in scoring, assists and 3-pointers made in 2026 and has helped the Wings (2-2) be in the position to win more games than they did in 2025, when the team finished 10-34.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dallas ranks top 5 in the league in offense with an average of 89.3 points per game and top 5 in field goal percentage with the team shooting 47.5% from the floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just four games into her sophomore season in the\u00a0WNBA, Paige Bueckers has already made history.\u00a0 Bueckers\u2019 career points…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,94507,89478,14422],"class_list":["post-301917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-tp-wnba","tag-tp-paige-bueckers","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}