{"id":582397,"date":"2026-04-13T21:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/582397\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:53:11","slug":"olivia-miles-warning-about-potential-paige-bueckers-team-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/582397\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Miles\u2018 warning about potential Paige Bueckers team-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Wings hold the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/wnba-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA Draft<\/a>, and one potential name to pair up with <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/paige-bueckers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paige Bueckers<\/a> is former TCU guard Olivia Miles. Miles is just one of a couple of players who could potentially hear their names called as the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/wnba\/wnba-stories\/wnba-news-what-azzi-fudd-said-ahead-of-2026-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 1 pick, including Bueckers\u2019 former UConn teammate Azzi Fudd<\/a>, UCLA\u2019s Lauren Betts and Spanish center Awa Fam.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent segment on ESPN\u2019s SportsCenter ahead of the WNBA Draft, Olivia Miles <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sportscenter\/status\/2043666799221227949?s=46&amp;t=dX0WTNrI0miHAqJBzVQESQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">gave her reaction<\/a> on what a potential team-up with Paige Bueckers would be like.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019d be one of, if not the most, dynamic backcourt in the league,\u201d Miles said. \u201cI\u2019m naturally a pass-first guard so I\u2019d want to get her the ball where she\u2019s successful. I think it would just be an incredible partnership. I\u2019d be very grateful for wherever I land, but if I got to play with Paige, I feel like we\u2019d light the league on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miles was eligible for the 2025 WNBA Draft, but opted to return to college for one more season amid her transfer to TCU. <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/womens-sports\/march-madness-news-olivia-miles-triple-double-history-tcu-win-uc-san-diego\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">She\u2019s coming off a strong season<\/a> in which she led the Horned Frogs to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament and won the Big 12 Player of the Year Award.<\/p>\n<p>She appeared in 38 games at a little over 35 minutes per game. Miles averaged a career-best 19.6 points, 7.2 rebounds, 6.6 assists and 1.8 steals with splits of 48.1 percent shooting from the field, 35.1 percent shooting from the 3-point line and 83.9 percent shooting from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Wings hold the No.  1 overall pick in the 2026 WNBA Draft, and one potential name to pair up with Paige Bueckers is former TCU guard Olivia Miles.  Miles is just one of a couple of players who could potentially hear their names called as the No.  1 pick, including Bueckers\u2019 former UConn teammate Azzi Fudd, UCLA\u2019s Lauren Betts and Spanish center Awa Fam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Wings hold the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 WNBA Draft, and one potential name&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2833,99,434,2940,43883],"class_list":{"0":"post-582397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-paige-bueckers","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-wnba","11":"tag-wnba-draft","12":"tag-wnba-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582397","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=582397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}