{"id":215484,"date":"2025-10-10T23:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T23:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/215484\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T23:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T23:57:10","slug":"wings-rookie-paige-bueckers-named-to-all-wnba-second-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/215484\/","title":{"rendered":"Wings rookie Paige Bueckers named to All-WNBA Second Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Wings<\/a> rookie guard Paige Bueckers<\/a> has been named to the All-WNBA Second Team, the league announced Friday. She was the lone rookie selected to an All-WNBA Team this season.<\/p>\n

Over 36 games in 2025, Bueckers averaged 19.2 points, 3.9 rebounds, 5.4 assists and 1.6 steals while shooting .477 from the field and .331 from three.<\/p>\n

Bueckers was the only player in the WNBA to finish in the top nine in scoring (5th), assists (9th) and steals (6th) among all players. Her 20.3 efficiency rating was tops among all guards in the WNBA, ranked seventh overall, and she was the only rookie to finish in the top 19.<\/p>\n

A national panel of sportswriters and broadcasters voted for the end-of-season awards, which included the All-WNBA Teams.<\/p>\n

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Prior to Friday\u2019s announcement, Bueckers had already collected a number of 2025 season honors, including WNBA Rookie of the Year<\/a>, Associated Press Rookie of the Year<\/a>, WNBA All-Rookie Team<\/a>, AP All-Rookie Team, and AP All-WNBA Second Team.<\/p>\n

Bueckers\u2019 rookie campaign was one for the record books. She tallied the third-most points (692) and assists (194) by a rookie in WNBA history, while posting the highest single-game scoring performance ever by a rookie with her 44-point outing at the Los Angeles Sparks on Aug. 20. <\/p>\n

The UConn graduate. who was selected No. 1 overall in the 2025 WNBA Draft, set Wings franchise rookie records for points, points per game, assists, assists per game and points-assists double-doubles (2).<\/p>\n

The All-WNBA honor is the eighth for a Dallas Wings player, and first for a Wings rookie. Dallas is one of just five teams to have had at least one All-WNBA honoree in each of the last three seasons. <\/p>\n

2025 All-WNBA First Team<\/p>\n

A\u2019ja Wilson, Aces<\/p>\n

Napheesa Collier, Lynx<\/p>\n

Alyssa Thomas, Mercury<\/p>\n

Allisha Gray, Dream<\/p>\n

Kelsey Mitchell, Fever<\/p>\n

2025 All-WNBA Second Team<\/p>\n

Nneka Ogwumike, Storm<\/p>\n

Jackie Young, Aces<\/p>\n

Sabrina Ionescu, Liberty<\/p>\n

Aliyah Boston, Fever<\/p>\n

Paige Bueckers, Wings<\/p>\n

\"Dallas<\/a>What does the future hold for Paige Bueckers and the Dallas Wings?<\/a><\/p>\n

A search for a new head coach and an offseason full of other question marks awaits Dallas.<\/p>\n

\"Dallas<\/a>Paige Bueckers, other WNBA players react to Napheesa Collier\u2019s comments on Cathy Engelbert<\/a><\/p>\n

The Minnesota Lynx star said the Dallas Wings rookie and other young players aren\u2019t being paid enough.<\/p>\n

Find more Wings coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Wings rookie guard Paige Bueckers has been named to the All-WNBA Second Team, the league announced Friday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[14537,2834,2833,99,13469,434],"class_list":["post-215484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-brief","tag-dallas-wings","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-sports","tag-wings","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}