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WNBA fans made Paige Bueckers jokes after the Wings won the draft lottery

Paige Bueckers might land with the Dallas Wings, and the jokes are flying.

The Dallas Wings won the 2025 WNBA Draft Lottery, and the Paige Bueckers jokes are splendid.

Sunday’s selection process to determine the first four picks of next year’s draft was a doozy. Let’s start with the unexciting stuff. As expected, Washington’s failed tank job seemingly kept the team out of the Bueckers sweepstakes at pick No. 4 (sorry, Mystics fans), and Chicago managed to avoid the awkwardness of potentially swapping picks with Dallas by landing at No. 3. Then, it got a little spicy.

The Sparks, who many thought would walk away with the first pick, landed at No. 2. That cleared a path for the Dallas Wings to land at the top of the draft. In a wild twist of events, former Sparks coach Curt Miller, now the Wings’ general manager, will be part of the team potentially selecting Paige Bueckers next spring. WILD TIMES.

As you can see, Miller and Wings star Arike Ogunbowale were thrilled. But, of course, the jokes started flying after that.

Honestly, these are truly tremendous.

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Notre Dame guards projected top-four picks ahead of WNBA draft lottery

This would reflect quite well on the Irish.

Notre Dame guards [autotag]Olivia Miles[/autotag] and [autotag]Sonia Citron[/autotag] are headed for the WNBA after this season. At least that’s the expectation. The real question is how high both players will be picked in the draft.

The WNBA draft lottery will take place Sunday. The participants are the Washington Mystics, Los Angeles Sparks, Dallas Wings and Chicago Sky. According to two projects, Miles and Citron both have a chance to be picked by one of those teams in the top four of the draft.

Tankathon has Miles and Citron going back-to-back at third and fourth, which would be an incredible accomplishment for the Irish. ESPN isn’t as optimistic with Miles going fourth and Citron projected as the final pick of the first round. ESPN previously had Miles going fifth and Citron 11th.

First things first though, both players are focused are bringing the Irish a national championship. Having [autotag]Hannah Hidalgo[/autotag] and rising freshman [autotag]Kate Koval[/autotag] with them will make the journey a lot easier.

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Former Chicago Sky coach Teresea Weatherspoon headlines Unrivaled league’s coaching staff hires

I want you to put the word out there. Teresea Weatherspoon is back up.

Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier’s Unrivaled unveiled its coaching hires Friday, and former Sky coach Teresa Weatherspoon headlines a stacked lineup.

Weatherspoon joins Unrivaled’s staff after being dismissed as head coach of the Chicago Sky after one season. Several other familiar basketball names are also traveling to Miami to coach, including Phil Handy (assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers) and Adam Harrington (assistant coach and director of player development for the Brooklyn Nets).

Something to watch is whether Weatherspoon will reconnect with her former player and current Unrivaled athlete, Angel Reese. Reese was heartbroken over Weatherspoon’s firing, and playing in Unrivaled might allow her to be with her former coach again. Players for all six teams and where they are landing will be unveiled during a club selection show on November 20.

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Caitlin Clark amazes world No. 1 Nelly Korda at LPGA pro-am

Caitlin Clark amazed world No. 1 Nelly Korda at the LPGA pro-am on Wednesday.

While enjoying the WNBA offseason following a Rookie of the Year campaign with the Indiana Fever, Caitlin Clark brought out her golf game in front of a large gathering on Wednesday in a pro-am for the LPGA Tour in Belleair, Fla.

Clark split the 18 holes of The Annika by playing the front nine with world No. 1 golfer Nelly Korda and shot the back nine with one of the winningest female golfers of all-time in Annika Sorenstam.

During a brief interview with Golf Channel, Clark was asked if she learned any tips from golfing with Korda.

“I’ve watched and she’s amazing,” Clark said. “But golf is hard.”

One of Clark’s many endorsement deals is with Indiana-based Gainbridge, the presenting sponsor of the LPGA’s penultimate tournament on the schedule. Clark also participated in a recent women’s leadership summit hosted by Gainbridge.

Korda said she has messaged with Clark on Instagram, but nothing surpasses spending time with her on the links.

“To see the influence that she has on people, bringing people out here, and to see how amazing of an influence she is just for sports, was really cool to see firsthand today,” Korda said.

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Clark is no stranger to golf as she has admitted to enjoying the sport in her downtime and even played in the John Deere Classic pro-am last summer on the PGA Tour.

Korda spoke about Clark’s game by praising her ability to remain relaxed, which she attributed to her constant bombardment by sports media over the past two years.

“It was great to see how relaxed she was,” Korda said. “Obviously with the media attention she has gotten probably in the past year-and-a-half, two years, you can see how she’s comfortable playing in front of a larger crowd. And she was just really enjoying it. You can tell.”

Although most of the golfing day was a success for Clark, there was one shot from the tee box that she shanked into the gallery nearby. Clark was able to laugh off the poorly hit ball by firing off a second shot onto the fairway.

As for Clark, it appears she is enjoying her own leisure life during the offseason prior to the start of her second WNBA season with the Indiana Fever in May of 2025.

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Caitlin Clark earns high praise from Hall of Fame basketball voice

Mike Breen has taken notice.

After a spectacular Rookie of the Year campaign with the WNBA’s Indiana Fever, Caitlin Clark continues to gain high praise from many throughout the basketball world as her influence on the growth and prosperity of the game increases.

During Sunday’s game between the New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers from Indianapolis’ Gainbridge Fieldhouse, MSG broadcaster Mike Breen spoke of Clark’s impact on the WNBA’s TV ratings by mentioning how the Fever’s local broadcasts this summer were higher than that of the Pacers.

“During the summer, when the Indiana Fever played here with Caitlin Clark, the building was packed. Every game,” Breen said on the broadcast. “The TV ratings of the Fever this summer, for the local telecast, were higher than a lot of the Pacers games because of Caitlin Clark.”

Breen continued raving about Clark and compared her impact on the WNBA to past NBA greats’ impact on the league.

“She’s doing, rating-wise for the WNBA, what Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Steph Curry have been doing for the NBA,” Breen said on the broadcast.

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As the No. 1 selection in the 2024 WNBA draft, Clark’s ability to translate her game displayed during her four years with the Hawkeyes has been spectacular.

In Clark’s first full professional season, she finished averaging 19.2 points, 8.4 assists, 5.3 rebounds and 1.3 steals in 35.4 minutes per game. She also shot 41.7% from the field, 34.4% from three-point range, and 90.6 from the free-throw line.

Clark set a new WNBA single-season record with 337 assists. Clark also established new rookie single-season records for points (769) and 3-pointers made (122).

Clark led the league in 3-pointers made and finished just six behind the single-season WNBA record that New York Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu set during the 2023 season.

Clark helped direct the Fever to a 20-20 record and their first postseason berth since the 2016 WNBA season.

With Stephanie White taking over as the Fever’s new head coach next season, Clark will look to translate her off-court impact into another sensational WNBA season.

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WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark reacts to Chiefs’ Week 10 win vs. Broncos

WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark reacted to the Kansas City #Chiefs’ thrilling Week 10 victory over the Denver #Broncos in a post to Twitter.

The Kansas City Chiefs are no strangers to celebrity endorsements, but after their win over the Denver Broncos on Sunday, nobody could have expected that WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark would voice her support for the defending Super Bowl champions.

Kansas City secured its Week 10 victory against Denver in spectacular fashion when budding linebacker Leo Chenal blocked a last-second field goal attempt by Broncos kicker Will Lutz.

Now 9-0 the Chiefs will remain the NFL’s only undefeated team heading into Week 11, when Kansas City will face the Buffalo Bills at Highmark Stadium in Western New York.

See what Caitlin Clark had to say after the Chiefs’ thrilling victory over Denver:

 

Clark, who grew up in Des Moines, Iowa, seems to have been following Kansas City’s Super Bowl defense campaign this season and was certainly fired up for the Chiefs’ latest win.

Stay tuned to see if Clark has more input when Kansas City plays Buffalo on November 17.

Sabrina Ionescu wants to partner with Caitlin Clark vs. Steph Curry and Klay Thompson in All-Star shooting contest

Sabrina and Caitlin vs. Steph and Klay? We would like to see it.

One of the highlights of NBA All-Star Weekend last season was the 3-point shooting contest between Golden State Warriors’ guard Steph Curry and New York Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu. NBA stars made picks and chose sides, WNBA stars had takes too, and in the end, Curry got the edge over Ionescu 29-26.

Because of how compelling and entertaining the shootout was, a lot of folks want Curry and Ionescu to run it back.

And some folks want to add an extra wrinkle to the contest, making it a two-on-two matchup, with Curry and his former co-Splash Brother Klay Thompson on one side, and Ionescu with a WNBA partner on the other.

Who would Ionescu pick? She revealed her answer in the hypothetical scenario on Saturday when she joined the FOX college football set ahead of her top-ranked alma mater Oregon hosting Maryland.

“If I would have to choose, I’m taking Caitlin Clark on my team.”

Was there really any other choice?

This past season, Clark and Ionescu ranked first and fourth respectively in 3-pointers made per game, and both knocked down north of 100 shots from behind the arc.

Let’s see it. Set up Klay and Steph versus Caitlin and Sabrina at All-Star Weekend 2025.

Travis Kelce talks seeing Taylor Swift ‘one more time’ and Caitlin Clark the Swiftie

The Fever rookie is a “Swiftie through-and-through.”

A new episode of the New Heights podcast dropped Wednesday morning as Jason and Travis Kelce addressed the latest in NFL, pop culture and more. The brotherly duo covered Jason’s viral moment at Penn State from the weekend, the Kansas City Chiefs improving to 8-0 and Travis going to support his girlfriend Taylor Swift at one of her Indianapolis Eras Tour shows.

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“I wanted to see Tay one more time before this thing got closed up,” Kelce said of his trip to Indiana. He also talked about getting to meet Indiana Fever superstar Caitlin Clark, calling the Rookie of the Year “awesome.”

“She was into the show for sure,” Kelce stated. “I think this was like her third or fourth show she had been to. She’s a Swiftie through-and-through, man.”

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Angel Reese seemingly had a 1-letter reaction to the Sky reportedly hiring new coach Tyler Marsh

Angel Reese seemingly approves.

The Chicago Sky have reportedly hired a new coach, and superstar forward Angel Reese seems to be a fan of the move.

ESPN reported on Saturday that Las Vegas Aces assistant coach and head of player development Tyler Marsh had agreed to a deal to join the Sky as its next head coach.

Marsh replaces Teresa Weatherspoon, who was fired in September after just one season.

Reese shared a simple “W” on Twitter (X) after news broke of Marsh’s reported hiring, seemingly indicating that she’s happy with the hire.

Chicago will now try to make the 2025 WNBA playoffs, a quest in which both Reese and reportedly Marsh will have key roles in for the franchise.

3 things to know about Stephanie White, the new head coach of Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever

The Stephanie White hire is brilliant for Indiana

It was shocking to see Christie Sides being let go of by the Indiana Fever after having such a successful season.

You just knew that, if Sides was on the way out, the Fever had to have a plan to bring in someone who might be able to take the Fever to the next level.

That’s exactly what they’re getting with Stephanie White.

The former Connecticut Sun head coach is heading to Indiana to coach Caitlin Clark and the Fever, according to the latest from ESPN’s Alexa Philippou. White is heading back to Indiana after leading the Sun to the WNBA Semifinals for two straight seasons.

Here’s everything you need to know about the Fever’s new head coach.

She’s been here before

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Quite literally. White was on the Fever coaching staff from 2011 to 2016 and was actually the team’s head coach in 2015 and 2016. She coached the Fever to the WNBA Finals in 2015 before losing to the Minnesota Lynx in five games.

White’s first tenure as the Fever’s head coach ended with her record at 37-31 with a playoff appearance and a WNBA Finals berth. That’s not bad at all.

She’s an Indiana basketball legend

She was a member of the Indiana Fever’s inaugural roster in 2000 and played for the team for four seasons from 2000 to 2004.

She’s also an Indiana native and was a star at Purdue before moving to the WNBA and playing professionally. She was the National Player of the Year in 1995, the state’s all-time leading scorer when she graduated and she even won a national championship with Purdue in 1999.

Stephanie White is the best of Indiana basketball.

Caitlin Clark is excited about the hire

The Fever star liked the team’s post on Instagram announcing the hire and she also commented underneath the post.

She seems ready to get to work.