{"id":380163,"date":"2026-07-20T22:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/380163\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T22:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:39:12","slug":"bueckers-out-against-liberty-but-not-in-concussion-protocol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/380163\/","title":{"rendered":"Bueckers out against Liberty but not in concussion protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Dallas Wings star Paige Bueckers has been ruled out against the New York Liberty on the second night of a back-to-back after hitting her head on the floor late in a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sparks-wings-score-f9eb1bef9525d8a270a6c14e491eb825\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">90-82 victory over the Los Angeles Sparks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bueckers isn&#8217;t in concussion protocol, but the team said the reigning Rookie of the Year was out against the Liberty on Monday night because Bueckers was still feeling soreness.<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas-New York meeting was rescheduled from Thursday night after the Liberty&#8217;s charter flight had mechanical issues. The Wings have won six consecutive games, a franchise record.<\/p>\n<p>The Wings play a third game in four nights Wednesday against Portland in their finale before the All-Star break. The team said the status of Bueckers, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wnba-all-star-injuries-b54726710ef2d4029ab81faa23ae336d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an All-Star starter<\/a>, is unknown for the rest of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Bueckers led Dallas with 25 points before exiting with 3:33 remaining after <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/espnW\/status\/2078919629368394193\" rel=\"nofollow\">colliding with Sparks star Nneka Ogwumike<\/a> and falling backward. Bueckers stayed down for several minutes and was holding her head as she went to the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>The former UConn standout is fourth in the WNBA at 20.9 points per game and sixth at 6.2 assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Dallas Wings star Paige Bueckers has been ruled out against the New York Liberty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[556,555,150,152,151,557,102,223,154,27],"class_list":["post-380163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-app-sports","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-associated-press","tag-dallas","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380163","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=380163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}