Paige Bueckers signs NIL deal with new Unrivaled league, expected to eventually join team: Sources
8 months ago

Paige Bueckers signs NIL deal with new Unrivaled league, expected to eventually join team: Sources

New York Times  

UConn star Paige Bueckers is signing a name, image and likeness deal with Unrivaled, the new three-on-three league that promises the highest average pay in pro women’s basketball, sources briefed on the deal said. With a 10-15 percent ownership pool for players, Unrivaled, which was announced by WNBA stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier in July 2023, has been aggressive with its pursuit of WNBA stars. “From the beginning, and I really set out to create a league that was founded on that principle that players deserve compensation and ownership that reflect their value.” The Pulse Newsletter Free, daily sports updates direct to your inbox. 🔥 https://t.co/xSCetSsDCH — Paige Bueckers August 1, 2024 Ten players, including Stewart and Collier, have officially joined Unrivaled.

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UConn star Paige Bueckers to enter 2025 WNBA Draft after NCAA Tournament
6 days, 14 hours ago

UConn star Paige Bueckers to enter 2025 WNBA Draft after NCAA Tournament

New York Times  

By Ben Pickman, Jelani Scott and Chantel Jennings Connecticut star Paige Bueckers, long considered the presumptive No. 1 pick in next month’s WNBA Draft, will indeed enter that draft after the NCAA Tournament, a program spokesperson said Friday. Earlier this week, the Huskies and their fans celebrated Bueckers after their final game this season at Gampel Pavilion — a 91-57 …

Paige Bueckers eyeing a national title after playing at Gampel Pavilion for the final time
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1 week, 2 days ago

Paige Bueckers eyeing a national title after playing at Gampel Pavilion for the final time

Associated Press  

STORRS, Conn. — After the game was over, UConn star Paige Bueckers returned to the court with a microphone in her hand. Bueckers had just matched her career high with 34 points in a 91-57 victory over South Dakota State on Monday night that moved the Huskies into their 31st consecutive Sweet 16 of the women’s NCAA Tournament. “The reality …

WNBA Draft confidential: GMs anonymously scout Paige Bueckers and more March Madness guards
1 week, 2 days ago

WNBA Draft confidential: GMs anonymously scout Paige Bueckers and more March Madness guards

New York Times  

The 2025 WNBA Draft will be headlined by UConn’s Paige Bueckers, who has been penciled in as the top pick ever since she decided to exercise her fifth year of eligibility. She will excel in pick-and-roll situations and is a player with a very high basketball IQ.” “It’s hard to succeed as a tiny, tiny guard, so size is just …

Paige Bueckers takes her place among the UConn legends after playing her final regular-season game.
1 month ago

Paige Bueckers takes her place among the UConn legends after playing her final regular-season game.

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 women’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Then they surrounded her after UConn’s 92-57 win over Marquette on Sunday as Bueckers became the latest women’s basketball star to see her number added to the Huskies of Honor. Fudd hasn’t announced whether she will declare for the upcoming WNBA draft or return to …

Napheesa Collier takes home $200K and Unrivaled 1-on-1 crown, beating Aaliyah Edwards in final
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Napheesa Collier takes home $200K and Unrivaled 1-on-1 crown, beating Aaliyah Edwards in final

Associated Press  

MEDLEY, Fla. — Napheesa Collier of the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx took home $200,000 on Friday after she beat Washington Mystics forward Aaliyah Edwards in the final of Unrivaled’s 1-on-1 tournament. The winner’s check was the largest one-day prize in women’s basketball history, Unrivaled commissioner Micky Lawler said, a big payday that was among the goals of Collier and fellow WNBA …

Breanna Stewart scores first basket in Unrivaled history in debut of 3-on-3 women’s league
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Breanna Stewart scores first basket in Unrivaled history in debut of 3-on-3 women’s league

Associated Press  

MIAMI — Unrivaled shined brightly on its opening night. The 3-on-3 women’s basketball league co-founded by WNBA stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier debuted Friday night. “I love the WNBA and love the innovativeness that Napheesa and Stewie brought to women’s basketball,” said fan Charlene Lewis, who traveled from Maryland for the games. “We’re going to celebrate this one tonight.” …

What are WNBA Draft options and projections for Paige Bueckers and Kiki Iriafen? Mailbag
2 months, 3 weeks ago

What are WNBA Draft options and projections for Paige Bueckers and Kiki Iriafen? Mailbag

New York Times  

January is one of the busiest months on the women’s basketball calendar. — N’namdi G. My colleague Sabreena Merchant made a bold prediction on our podcast this week that Bueckers will not declare for the 2025 WNBA Draft. She told Time, “Professional players and professional coaches — this is no disrespect to college women’s basketball — are a lot smarter. …

WNBA mock draft: After Wings win lottery for Paige Bueckers, who goes next?
4 months, 2 weeks ago

WNBA mock draft: After Wings win lottery for Paige Bueckers, who goes next?

New York Times  

The WNBA Draft lottery is in the books, setting the order for April’s 2025 draft. Take a look at the final results for the WNBA Draft Lottery presented by @StateFarm The @DallasWings will have the #1 overall pick in the Draft on April 14th 🙌 pic.twitter.com/l9C6zpL167 — WNBA November 17, 2024 This is the league’s first draft with 13 teams, …

Possibility of picking Paige Bueckers No. 1 in WNBA Draft crystalizes Dallas Wings’ future
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Possibility of picking Paige Bueckers No. 1 in WNBA Draft crystalizes Dallas Wings’ future

New York Times  

Throughout the college basketball offseason, spotting the presumptive No. She even captioned one of her Instagram posts capturing her jet-setting offseason: “I still hoop, I swear.” The Dallas Wings will be glad that Bueckers does still play — and plays well — as the Wings won the 2025 WNBA Draft lottery Sunday, allowing them to select Bueckers with the top …

Paige Bueckers vs. JuJu Watkins: How UConn, USC stars will keep women’s basketball in spotlight
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Paige Bueckers vs. JuJu Watkins: How UConn, USC stars will keep women’s basketball in spotlight

New York Times  

USC head coach Lindsay Gottlieb noticed a stranger approaching. Kevin Hart was in attendance to see JuJu Watkins and the USC Women’s Basketball team ✌️#ncaaw #fighton pic.twitter.com/31PLjQDknN — WNBA Got Game December 20, 2023 Bueckers, who won national Player of the Year as a freshman four years ago, is in her final season at UConn. Watkins’ and Bueckers’ play, storylines …

Caitlin Clark's teammate announced as Unrivaled participant, leaving limited spots open for the Fever star
5 months ago

Caitlin Clark's teammate announced as Unrivaled participant, leaving limited spots open for the Fever star

Daily Mail  

The new Unrivaled basketball league is making a push to secure Caitlin Clark's services in every way possible, including signing her teammates and friends to contracts. On Wednesday, Unrivaled announced Clark's Indiana Fever teammate Lexie Hull as the 29th member of the 36-player league. Caitlin Clark has not declared her offseason basketball intentions with Unrivaled looming The league has been …

Fans already can't wait for the new WNBA season after big Caitlin Clark news is revealed
5 months, 1 week ago

Fans already can't wait for the new WNBA season after big Caitlin Clark news is revealed

Daily Mail  

Caitlin Clark is already back in the gym and preparing for her second WNBA season, just days after the end of her rookie year. The 2025 season doesn't start until May next year, leaving fans with seven months to wait until Clark returns - but there is speculation that she could play again before that. Caitlin Clark appears to be …

Paige Bueckers: The Final Chase for National Championship Glory
5 months, 1 week ago

Paige Bueckers: The Final Chase for National Championship Glory

Associated Press  

UConn star Paige Bueckers enters her final season, eager to chase that elusive national title. With a final chance to win a national championship, she brings deep experience and leadership to the team. Bueckers is a preseason AP All-American and is one of the most popular players in the sport. She is ranked No. 2 in the preseason AP Top …

Caitlin Clark hits the practice courts amid claims she's in line for massive offer to join Unrivaled league
5 months, 1 week ago

Caitlin Clark hits the practice courts amid claims she's in line for massive offer to join Unrivaled league

Daily Mail  

In the month since Caitlin Clark's rookie season in the WNBA ended, she has kept a relatively low profile, that was until Wednesday when the Fever posted a video of her on-court workout on Wednesday. The timing of the video is peculiar as a report surfaced hours earlier that the Unrivaled basketball league is prepping to make Clark a ''Lionel …

WNBA MVP A'Ja Wilson slammed for resurfaced 'racist' comments about 'privileged' white Aces teammate Kelsey Plum and UConn's Paige Bueckers
6 months ago

WNBA MVP A'Ja Wilson slammed for resurfaced 'racist' comments about 'privileged' white Aces teammate Kelsey Plum and UConn's Paige Bueckers

Daily Mail  

Basketball fans are outraged after a clip surfaced showing WNBA Most Valuable Player A'Ja Wilson discussing the privilege of white players. Specifically, Wilson was referencing Las Vegas Aces teammate Kelsey Plum, whom she is seen talking with in the clip, and University of Connecticut star Paige Bueckers. 'Us, as black women, Paige reminds me a lot of you,' Wilson told …

Caitlin Clark breaks silence on prospect of her joining Angel Reese in new basketball league backed by Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan and other stars
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Caitlin Clark breaks silence on prospect of her joining Angel Reese in new basketball league backed by Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan and other stars

Daily Mail  

Indiana Fever basketball star Caitlin Clark has broken her silence on the thought of joining Angel Reese in the new women's basketball league, Unrivaled. To give WNBA players the chance to make enough money in the offseason to not have to play in overseas leagues, 30 basketball players will partake in Unrivaled, a 3x3 league with six teams. Caitlin Clark …

Paige Bueckers planning for future by joining new Unrivaled 3-on-3 league, living in the present
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Paige Bueckers planning for future by joining new Unrivaled 3-on-3 league, living in the present

Associated Press  

Paige Bueckers is already thinking about her future while she’s living in the present. Bueckers has already signed up to be part of Unrivaled — the new 3-on-3 league started by former Huskies greats Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart. “To be part of that which is something that’s so much bigger than myself.” Bueckers will have an NIL deal with …

What is Unrivaled? A new league that promises high pay and big stars, including Angel Reese
8 months, 1 week ago

What is Unrivaled? A new league that promises high pay and big stars, including Angel Reese

New York Times  

Angel Reese has already made instant impact with the Chicago Sky, amassing a league-record 15 consecutive double-doubles during the first half of her rookie season. The star has decided how to spend her first WNBA offseason: playing in the new professional three-on-three league Unrivaled. As women’s sports spike in popularity, Collier has said that everyone is benefiting but the athletes …

WNBA stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier launch new 3-on-3 league
9 months, 3 weeks ago

WNBA stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier launch new 3-on-3 league

CNN  

CNN — Amid the historic interest in women’s basketball, a new professional league in the US could grow the game even further and make it easier for stars to stay in the country during the WNBA offseason. At least that’s what Unrivaled co-founders and current WNBA stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier are hoping when the new 3-on-3 basketball league …

The WNBA’s challenge: How to translate the Caitlin Clark hype into sustained growth for the league
10 months, 2 weeks ago

The WNBA’s challenge: How to translate the Caitlin Clark hype into sustained growth for the league

Associated Press  

The stars seemingly have aligned for the WNBA with Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese joining the ranks of A’ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart, Diana Taurasi and others. Minnesota coach Cheryl Reeve said everyone involved needs to be more innovative in how players and games are marketed and promoted to take advantage of the potential tsunami for both the league and women’s …

The WNBA's challenge: How to translate the Caitlin Clark hype into sustained growth for the league
10 months, 2 weeks ago

The WNBA's challenge: How to translate the Caitlin Clark hype into sustained growth for the league

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The one thing we’ve always done as players is …

For UConn to thrive, Paige Bueckers needs to be more like Caitlin Clark
1 year, 3 months ago

For UConn to thrive, Paige Bueckers needs to be more like Caitlin Clark

New York Times  

Since high school, Paige Bueckers and Caitlin Clark’s basketball stories have been intertwined. Bueckers, a Minnesota native, signed with UConn, a dynasty that had not only made the Elite Eight almost every year of Bueckers’ life but also won nine national titles during that span. With a roster hampered by injuries and an eight-player rotation featuring four freshmen, Bueckers and …

Stewart and Collier plan to start a new women’s league to play in WNBA offseason
1 year, 8 months ago

Stewart and Collier plan to start a new women’s league to play in WNBA offseason

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — WNBA stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier are starting a new women’s basketball league to give top players another option to play in the U.S. in the offseason once the league’s prioritization rules go into effect next year. The new league, which is called Unrivaled, will run from January through March and have 30 of the top …

What do WNBA GMs think about Caitlin Clark and Paige Bueckers? Our anonymous poll
1 year, 11 months ago

What do WNBA GMs think about Caitlin Clark and Paige Bueckers? Our anonymous poll

New York Times  

The 2023 WNBA Draft is a few days in the rearview mirror, with the basketball world looking forward to the upcoming WNBA season and 2024 draft. Because still at her size, a lot of it also comes down to the decisions you make.” GO DEEPER From under the radar to Final Four star, how Georgia Amoore emerged at Virginia Tech …

Breanna Stewart and Candace Parker helped form super-teams. Is that good for the WNBA?
2 years, 2 months ago

Breanna Stewart and Candace Parker helped form super-teams. Is that good for the WNBA?

New York Times  

Welcome to Getting Technical, a new feature from the women’s basketball writers at The Athletic. With Breanna Stewart’s official announcement that she’s joining the New York Liberty, we processed what this means for the Liberty and the league, if we’re entering a new era for the sport and how this will affect rosters across the WNBA. I’m looking at how …

Women’s college basketball, WNBA mailbag: Is something off with Iowa? Who should Lynx draft?
2 years, 4 months ago

Women’s college basketball, WNBA mailbag: Is something off with Iowa? Who should Lynx draft?

New York Times  

South Carolina is still the class of college hoops, and the Indiana Fever stand to benefit in the draft from the generational talent who’s propelling the Gamecocks in their bid for a repeat. – David H. First, let’s start with a refresher: WNBA free agency begins in January when teams can start negotiating with their own free agents. The doomsday …

Star guard Paige Bueckers plans to play for UConn in 2023-24
2 years, 7 months ago

Star guard Paige Bueckers plans to play for UConn in 2023-24

Associated Press  

STORRS, Conn. — Paige Bueckers intends to play basketball in the 2023-24 season for Connecticut after recovering from an ACL injury that’s sidelined her this season. Speaking on campus for the first time since being hurt, Bueckers was adamant in saying she will not enter the 2023 WNBA Draft and will return to play college ball. But I will be …

UConn’s Bueckers suffers torn ACL, will miss upcoming season
2 years, 7 months ago

UConn’s Bueckers suffers torn ACL, will miss upcoming season

Associated Press  

STORRS, Conn. — UConn women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers tore the ACL in her left knee during a pickup game and will miss the entire 2022-23 season, the school announced Wednesday. “It’s so so crazy because you work so hard to get back healthy, you feel stronger than ever, and you are playing your best basketball and with one sudden …

EXPLAINER: Why WNBA players go overseas to play in offseason
3 years ago

EXPLAINER: Why WNBA players go overseas to play in offseason

Associated Press  

Russia has been a popular destination for WNBA players like Brittney Griner over the past two decades because of the money they can make playing there in the winter. With top players earning more than $1 million — nearly quadruple what they can make as a base salary in the WNBA — Griner, Breanna Stewart, Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird and …

New Sparks player Liz Cambage is finally where she’s always wanted to be
3 years, 1 month ago

New Sparks player Liz Cambage is finally where she’s always wanted to be

LA Times  

New Sparks player Liz Cambage holds her jersey during a news conference to announce her signing with the team outside Crypto.com Arena on Wednesday. New Sparks player Liz Cambage and general manager and coach Derek Fischer answer questions at a news conference to announce her signing with the team outside Crypto.com Arena on Wednesday. New Sparks player Liz Cambage and …

Athletes Unlimited signs more WNBA players for new league
3 years, 4 months ago

Athletes Unlimited signs more WNBA players for new league

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The chance to stay home this winter and work on her craft and get paid was appealing to Indiana Fever center Jantel Lavender. The fifth pick in the 2011 draft is one of five WNBA players who are joining the newly formed Athletes Unlimited basketball league that’s starting this winter. “We talked about how WNBA players don’t …

Sale of WNBA's Atlanta Dream approved; former star Renee Montgomery part of new ownership group
4 years, 1 month ago

Sale of WNBA's Atlanta Dream approved; former star Renee Montgomery part of new ownership group

Firstpost  

Players around the WNBA called for called for Loeffler to sell her 49 percent share in the Dream in July after she wrote to Engelbert to object to WNBA initiatives to support the Black Lives Matter movement and advocate for racial justice. Former US senator Kelly Loeffler’s controversial stint as a WNBA team owner ended Friday as the women’s league …

WNBA Players Call For Senator Kelly Loeffler To Be Booted From League
4 years, 8 months ago

WNBA Players Call For Senator Kelly Loeffler To Be Booted From League

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WNBA players are again calling for Sen. Kelly Loeffler to be removed as co-owner of the league’s Atlanta Dream franchise after she objected to the WNBA’s mission to support Black Lives Matter this season. Loeffler, a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, wrote to WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert on Tuesday requesting that American flags be placed on …

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