{"id":99042,"date":"2025-08-21T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/99042\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T09:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:50:11","slug":"paige-bueckers-historic-night-spoiled-after-kelsey-plum-banks-in-buzzer-beater-for-the-win-over-dallas-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/99042\/","title":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers&#8217; historic night spoiled after Kelsey Plum banks in buzzer-beater for the win over Dallas Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Paige Bueckers arrives in Dallas feeling &#8220;grateful and blessed&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/8bb5e3089a3d045c4755425ba497a103-0-1745456050498.png\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/video\/paige-bueckers-arrives-in-dallas-feeling-grateful-and-blessed\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          Paige Bueckers arrives in Dallas feeling &#8220;grateful and blessed&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>          03:13<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paige Bueckers&#8217; history-making night was spoiled by Los Angeles Sparks guard Kelsey Plum banking in the winning shot just before the final buzzer to beat the Dallas Wings 81-80 on Wednesday night. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bueckers, who put up a career-high 44 points, scored the most points by a player in a single game in the WNBA this season and tied Cynthia Cooper&#8217;s 28-year-old record for most points in a game by a first-year player.<\/p>\n<p>She scored Dallas&#8217; final 13 points, the last on a technical free throw with 1:03 remaining for an 80-79 lead. But the Wings (9-27) turned it over after winning the ensuing jump ball, and Aziaha James missed a corner 3-pointer with about 20 seconds left to give Los Angeles the final shot.<\/p>\n<p>Plum used a high screen from Dearica Hamby to get into the lane for a left-handed floater that banked in before she was surrounded by Rickea Jackson and Rae Burrell in celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Plum finished with 20 points for Los Angeles (17-18). Jackson had 25 points and a career-high six 3-pointers, Hamby added 14 points and Cameron Brink had 11 points and eight rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Sparks&#8217; victory eliminated the Wings and Chicago Sky from playoff contention.<\/p>\n<p>Bueckers, whose previous high was 35 points against the Phoenix Mercury on June 11, went 17 of 21 from the field, including 4 of 4 from 3-point range, and 6 of 6 at the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p>Bueckers moved past Cooper for the third-longest streak of consecutive double-digit scoring games by a rookie in WNBA history with 29. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/aja-wilson-scores-34-and-aces-hit-18-3-pointers-in-a-106-87-win-over-the-wings-106-87\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas forward A&#8217;ja Wilson<\/a> holds the record of 33.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas and Los Angeles met last Friday, with the Sparks securing a 97-96 victory despite Bueckers scoring a game-high 29. The teams will meet again in Los Angeles on Sept. 7. The Sparks have won eight of the last 11 meetings with the Wings.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers arrives in Dallas feeling &#8220;grateful and blessed&#8221; Paige Bueckers arrives in Dallas feeling &#8220;grateful and blessed&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2834,3031,99,434,33953],"class_list":["post-99042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-dallas-wings","tag-los-angeles","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-basketball-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99042","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=99042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}