Top WNBA draft pick Paige Bueckers announces investment stake in Unrivaled league

Paige Bueckers has had an eventful month.

During the archetypal Sunday of the month, Bueckers helped assistance UConn women's hoops backmost to the mountaintop. The Huskies knocked disconnected the defending champion South Carolina Gamecocks to unafraid Bueckers archetypal vocation NCAA title.

On Sunday, sources confirmed to ESPN that Bueckers was acceptable to ink a three-year woody with the upstart Unrivaled, a nonrecreational women's 3-on-3 league. On Monday, Bueckers was the archetypal subordinate selected successful the 2025 WNBA Draft.

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Paige Bueckers poses with WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert aft being selected with the fig 1 wide prime to the Dallas Wings successful the 2025 WNBA Draft astatine The Shed astatine Hudson Yards. (Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images)

Unrivaled is expected to wage Bueckers much implicit its 10-week season, than her WNBA rookie wage volition output implicit the league's record-high 44 games during the 2025 season. But, connected Wednesday, Bueckers' April whirlwind took different rotation erstwhile she announced she was an capitalist successful Unrivaled.

The Dallas Wings rookie confirmed her concern involvement during an quality connected "Good Morning America" connected Wednesday.

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"I mean, investments successful women’s sports — I consciousness similar the instrumentality connected concern has been amazing," Bueckers said. "Even the archetypal twelvemonth (of Unrivaled), the numbers were shocking. They conscionable blew it retired of the water. And conscionable to put truthful overmuch successful women’s sports, it’s increasing astatine an all-time high, and it’s conscionable a large clip to beryllium successful women's sports."

The mean Unrivaled wage was much than $220,000. Bueckers' four-year WNBA deal’s basal wage would beryllium conscionable nether $350,000.

Connecticut Huskies defender Paige Bueckers (5) reacts during the archetypal fractional against the South Carolina Gamecocks of the nationalist title of the women's 2025 NCAA tourney astatine Amalie Arena.  (Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images)

Bueckers is conscionable the latest high-profile capitalist successful Unrivaled.

In December, the league announced $28 cardinal successful backing from a radical that included Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, NBA prima Giannis Antetokounmpo, South Carolina women’s hoops manager Dawn Staley and USC prima JuJu Watkins. Other investors see tennis prima Coco Cauff, retired shot prima Alex Morgan and retired NBA prima Carmelo Anthony.

Before she steps connected the level for Unrivaled, though, Bueckers has her rookie WNBA play awaiting her.

UConn defender Paige Bueckers addresses fans aft her past crippled astatine Gampel Pavilion astatine the extremity of a 2nd circular crippled against South Dakota State successful the NCAA assemblage hoops tournament, Monday, March 24, 2025, successful Storrs, Conn.  (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

After making the talk-show rounds, Bueckers volition beryllium headed to Texas to marque appearances and hole for grooming camp, which begins April 27.

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The Wings unfastened the play connected May 16 against the Minnesota Lynx, and they look Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever connected June 27, which could correspond a acme showdown of the 2 players expected to beryllium the look of the league for the foreseeable future.

"Just to articulation a metropolis and enactment that embraces you, I’ve felt truthful overmuch emotion already and I haven’t adjacent acceptable ft successful Dallas yet," Bueckers said. "Everyone has been loving maine and embracing maine with unfastened arms."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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