Dallas Wings star Paige Bueckers named WNBA Rookie of the Year

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Bueckers averaged 19.2 points connected 47.7 percent shooting on with 3.9 rebounds, 5.4 assists and 1.6 steals successful the season.

Published On 16 Sep 2025

Dallas Wings’ hoops prima Paige Bueckers has won the WNBA Rookie of the Year honour aft 1 of the champion debut seasons successful league history.

Bueckers received 70 of the 72 votes from sportswriters and broadcasters successful balloting announced by the league connected Tuesday. The different 2 went to Washington Mystics defender Sonia Citron.

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Bueckers was a agleam spot for a squad that tied the Chicago Sky with a league-worst 10-34 grounds aft being drafted with the number-one wide prime and the archetypal Dallas Wings subordinate to triumph the grant since Allisha Gray successful 2017. The erstwhile UConn prima averaged 19.2 points connected 47.7 per cent shooting on with 3.9 rebounds, 5.4 assists and 1.6 steals.

But those numbers bash not archer the implicit story.

Her 692 points and 194 assists were the 3rd astir by a WNBA rookie. The item was erstwhile she scored 44 successful a nonaccomplishment to the Los Angeles Sparks connected August 20.

It was the WNBA’s highest constituent full this play and the astir ever by a rookie. She besides became the archetypal subordinate successful league past to people 40 oregon much portion shooting 80 per cent successful a game.

That show came adjacent the extremity of a 30-game double-digit streak, the 3rd longest to commencement a vocation down A’ja Wilson’s 33 games successful 2018 and Candace Parker’s 32 games successful 2008.

Paige Bueckers is the 2025 WNBA @Kia Rookie of the Year 🏆

Averaging 19.2 PPG, 5.4 APG, 3.9 RPG, Bueckers led the @dallaswings arsenic 1 of the astir dynamic rookies the league has ever seen.
#KiaROY | #WelcometotheW pic.twitter.com/VtT01Qwzr0

— WNBA (@WNBA) September 16, 2025

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