Dallas – Paige Bueckers has done everything possible to live in the present for a short period in which he went from winning a national championship with UConn earlier this month to be the GENERAL SELECTION No. 1 In the WNBA draft and now puts on a Stetson cowboy hat on a podium in the Dallas City Council.
“It has been crazy. It has been without stopping in motion, I am doing something or slope,” Bueckers said on Wednesday. “This is how it has been during the last two weeks. But I have tried to be present as much as I could, enjoy the last days in Uconn in those relationships and those experiences, obviously enjoying the draft.”
The next step is the training camp with the Dallas Wings, which begins on Sunday.
“Very excited for the next chapter,” said the versatile 23 -year -old guard.
Bueckers And the other four players recruited by the wings on April 14 were presented in a full lobby in the City of Dallas that included the mayor, the City Council and the city workers, some watching from hangers on the second and third floor.
“Well, it was Christmas nine days ago (in the draft). Certainly, today it feels like New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day with optimism and all the impulse around the wings of Dallas,” General Manager Curt Miller saying.
There was never a question for Miller or the wings about who would be their best choice when they won the WNBA draft lottery.
“The general panorama is that we knew what that meant … exciting and exciting moment,” said Miller. “Paige obviously leaves a national championship, one of the most decorated university players and one of the most efficient players in the history of university basketball.”
Together with the mayor’s proclamations, there were also the cowboy hats for each of the wings recruits: Bueckers, 12th General Aziaha James selection of the North Carolina state, 14th Selection Madison Scott of Mississippi, 27th JJ Quinerly selection of Western Virginia and 31st Selection Aaronette Vonleh de Baylor.
“Everyone has talked about being part of a new family, being part of a new city. Dallas is a great sports city, you can feel love and support,” Bueckers said. “There are many new ones in this organization, so I know part of something and build with each other, and simply create a new brotherhood.”
The introductory press conference was held to a couple of blocks from the historic center of the center of the center that was completely renewed to become the new home of the wings next season.
But Bueckers’s houses in their first season with the Wings will be about 20 miles away at College Park Center in Ut-Arlington, where they will play their tenth and last season since the franchise moved from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Except for a game at home June 27. The Wings that night will play Indiana and Caitlin Clark, the general selection number 1 of last year, at the NBA Dallas Mavericks House.
It was a year ago on Thursday that the Dallas City Council approved a 15 -year agreement It is worth $ 19 million to facilitate the pending movement of the team to its homonym city. The Council also approved a renewal of $ 7.7 million to the sand that was once the home of the Dallas Chaparrals of the American Basketball Association, which moved to San Antonio to become the Spurs in 1973, and joined the NBA when ABA folded three years later.
“We stopped here in this building, and proudly announced that the Dallas Wings would soon make the center of Dallas their permanent home,” said Mayor Eric Johnson on Wednesday. “And since then, the emotion has only grown, the fan base has recovered and today we are taking the next great step forward. Welcome, all, to the future of Dallas Sports.”
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