Former UConn Huskies superstar and now Dallas Wings rookie Paige Bueckers reminisced on when exactly she garnered fame around her name. In a video posted by @nilosophyshow on Instagram on Thursday, July 3, Bueckers was being interviewed by host Deja Kelly.
In it, Bueckers spoke about how back in her days of high school hoops in her hometown of Hopkins, Minnesota, the spitfire scorer shared that she always consumed basketball media and hoped that she will one day be given her own highlight reel. After showcasing her game in a variety of ways in high school, Bueckers eventually got her viral mixtape.
“It started in high school like I always grew up watching like Ballislife mixtapes. It was Austin Rivers, John Wall, like Aquille Carr, those guys and you didn’t really see a lot of women. So, in high school, you started to see like there was like Overtime women’s basketball, Courtside Films, W Slam, now those are all of the names now. But, getting mixtapes, getting like posted on these big social media platforms that you didn’t really see growing up,” Bueckers recalled.
“I got posted, some other girls in our class got posted. It just became like this like contagious thing to where everybody was wanting to post because it got the respect and attention that it deserved. And then, I just remember, one day, I had like a ‘K’ next to my name like I had like 9000, 9999 and then it reached like 10K. I’m like, ‘Bro, I have a ‘K’ next to my name,’ like this is nuts,” she said.
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Bueckers is currently a rookie in the WNBA after she was selected with the first overall pick in this year’s draft. In her first year in the league thus far, Bueckers has registered 18.4 points, 4.4 rebounds, 5.8 assists and 1.8 steals per contest.
Paige Bueckers Capped Off Her Stellar College Basketball Career With An NCAA Title
After four stellar years of college basketball, some of the time which was spent with recovery from ACL injuries and the like, Paige Bueckers finally captured a national championship in her final year with the UConn Huskies to cap off her remarkable collegiate hoops run.
In the 2025 NCAA championship game against the defending national champions in coach Dawn Staley’s South Carolina Gamecocks, Bueckers and the rest of coach Geno Auriemma’s Huskies captured the title after winning by 23 points, 82-59. In her final outing as a Husky, Bueckers dropped 17 points, six rebounds, three assists, a steal and two blocks in 38 minutes of playing time.
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