Paige Bueckers says she’s happy to be in the WNBA MVP race because it means the Dallas Wings are performing well so far this season.<\/p>\n
“It’s humbling. There’s so many amazing women in this league,” Bueckers said when asked about her inclusion in MVP conversations in a recent interview with ESPN’s Chiney Ogwumike (1:00 mark of the video below).<\/p>\n
Bueckers continued, “I really feel like it’s just a testament to the team and what we’ve been able to do this first half of the year, and how well we’ve bonded, and how quick the chemistry came about.<\/p>\n
“Those conversations come with winning, and that’s the biggest thing that I care about.”<\/p>\n
The Wings are on track to make the playoffs for the first time since 2023 after an 18-10 start to the season.<\/p>\n
That record, good for fourth in the WNBA, already marks the highest single-season win total for the franchise since 2023.<\/p>\n
That’s in large part thanks to Bueckers, who has averaged a team-high 20.7 points and 6.2 assists through 26 games of her sophomore WNBA season.<\/p>\n
Her play has helped Wings forward Jessica Shepard average a career-best 14.9 points and 12.1 rebounds per game while assisting Azzi Fudd’s case for a Rookie of the Year nomination.<\/p>\n
Other candidates for the award include rookie Olivia Miles, who has helped lead the Minnesota Lynx to the top of the league standings, and four-time MVP A’ja Wilson, who is once more setting up the Las Vegas Aces as a playoff favorite. <\/p>\n
Bueckers has 16 regular-season games to make her MVP case and help the Wings clinch a playoff spot before the postseason begins this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers says she’s happy to be in the WNBA MVP race because it means the Dallas Wings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-796313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796313","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=796313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}