{"id":828989,"date":"2025-04-24T14:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=828989"},"modified":"2025-04-24T15:23:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T19:23:36","slug":"paige-bueckers-dallas-wings-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wslam\/paige-bueckers\/paige-bueckers-dallas-wings-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRST LOOK: Paige Bueckers Rocks No. 5 Dallas Wings Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Paige Buckets has arrived. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After going No. 1 overall in the 2025 WNBA Draft, Bueckers is now down south in Dallas with her new team. In official photos, here&#8217;s a first-look at Paige wearing her No. 5. Wings jersey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1706\" height=\"2560\" data-id=\"828995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211027551-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-828995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211027551-scaled.jpg 1706w, https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211027551-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211027551-720x1080.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211027551-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211027551-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211027551-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211027551-1365x2048.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1706px) 100vw, 1706px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" data-id=\"829003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/491434089_18504398812024264_7073089022475727229_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-829003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/491434089_18504398812024264_7073089022475727229_n.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/491434089_18504398812024264_7073089022475727229_n-720x900.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/491434089_18504398812024264_7073089022475727229_n-864x1080.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/491434089_18504398812024264_7073089022475727229_n-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/491434089_18504398812024264_7073089022475727229_n-768x960.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Paige once told CT Insider&#8217;s Maggie Vanoni that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctinsider.com\/sports\/uconn-womens-basketball\/article\/huskies-players-numbers-final-four-iowa-19381866.php\">she picked five <\/a>because that&#8217;s what she wore when she played with USA Basketball. The kicks she&#8217;s wearing are the &#8220;X-Ray&#8221; Kobe 5s to match the fly of her Wings uniform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First look at the new threads and Paige brought out the \u201cX-Ray\u201d Kobe 5s. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KfXvCvVZtA\">pic.twitter.com\/KfXvCvVZtA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; SLAM Kicks (@SLAMKicks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SLAMKicks\/status\/1915186756560773292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahead of training camp, which officially starts April 27, the Wings welcomed her and fellow WNBA draft picks\u2014Aziaha James, Madison Scott, JJ Quinerly and Aaronette Vonley\u2014in an introductory press conference. Sitting alongside new General Manager Curt Miller and new head coach Chris Koclanes, Paige talked about the Wings being a &#8220;winning organization,&#8221; and that they&#8217;ll \u201ccontinue to build off each other, continue to build off the momentum of women\u2019s sports and the wave that\u2019s been created.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paige Buckets has arrived. After going No. 1 overall in the 2025 WNBA Draft, Bueckers is now down south in Dallas with her new team. In official photos, here&#8217;s a first-look at Paige wearing her No. 5. Wings jersey. Paige once told CT Insider&#8217;s Maggie Vanoni that she picked five because that&#8217;s what she wore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":424,"featured_media":828999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65391],"tags":[13122,63472,64081,1863],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-828989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paige-bueckers","tag-dallas-wings","tag-uconn-huskies","tag-uconn-womens-basketball","tag-wnba"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828989"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829005,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828989\/revisions\/829005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828989"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=828989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}