Paige Bueckers believes black coaches deserve more opportunities in the WNBA. Bueckers made her feelings clear about it on Sunday after leading the Dallas Wings to a 96-91 win over the Chicago Sky. A reporter asked her about the chatter surrounding the support for more diversity in the WNBA’s coaching landscape, and the Wings star gave a thoughtful answer.
Bueckers also cited her upbringing and having several black women around her, including her stepmom, Moe Roberts, and her AAU coach, whom she has immense respect for and what they have accomplished.
“I grew up with a lot of prominent black women in my life that were very important to me and how I was raised and how I grew up,” Bueckers said. “Be it my stepmom, my AAU coach.
“So, I understand, like, how amazing they are and how they should get the same equal opportunity, as a white woman, as a white man, to be an important piece of this league and (this league) was built on a lot of black women, so it’s definitely right for them to get the same equal opportunity as everybody else.”
Bueckers was born to Bob Bueckers and Amy Fuller, who separated when she was three years old. Her dad got married to her stepmom, Moe. Bueckers has a step-brother and step-sister, too. While both her birth parents have been around, Bueckers has also seemingly shared a close bond with Moe.
Bueckers has publicly voiced her support for black athletes and personalities in the sporting world. She’s done it on prominent platforms like the ESPYs in 2021 and in her TIME Magazine interview in 2025.
“With the light that I have now as a white woman who leads a Black-led sport and celebrated here, I want to shed a light on Black women,” said Bueckers at the ESPYs. “They’ve given so much to the sport, the community and society as a whole and their value is undeniable.”
During her Time Magazine interview four years later, Bueckers felt the media coverage wasn’t as good for the black athletes. Bueckers admitted that “white privilege” exists and again vowed to use her platform to change things.
“It’s still an issue, every single day,” she said. “There’s not ever equal coverage. There’s white privilege every single day that I see. I feel like I’ve worked extremely hard, blessed by God. But I do think there’s more opportunities for me. I feel like even just marketability, people tend to favor white people, white males, white women.”
Paige Bueckers moves up in the record books after clinical double-double against Sky
Paige Bueckers had a monster game against the Sky. She finished with 22 points, 11 assists and six rebounds, shooting 7-for-15 from the field. Bueckers racked up eight points and five assists in the fourth quarter alone as the Wings overturned a 10-point second-half deficit to win the game. Bueckers only had one turnover all game and zero in the fourth.
Bueckers moved up the record books after that performance; she’s scored the most points by a point guard in their first two seasons since 1998, while also taking a lead in this season’s fourth-quarter scoring.
She also became the third-youngest guard to score 20-plus points, grab five-plus rebounds and dish 10-plus assists in a game.
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