On Tuesday, the anticipated was confirmed, because the WNBA transactions web page up to date to indicate that Paige Bueckers has formally signed her rookie-scale contract with the Dallas Wings. As with each rookie contract underneath the present Collective Bargaining Settlement, Bueckers is now on an unguaranteed contract for 3 years, with a fourth-year group choice.
Even when the brand new CBA is signed for the 2026 season, Bueckers will keep on this contract till it expires. Except the Dallas Wings waive her earlier than then… which might be a Luka-Doncic-trade-level outrage in Dallas, and fortunately is an ignominous destiny Bueckers and Dallas followers are (doubtless) protected from, on condition that it’s unlikely one other professional basketball group in Dallas (or wherever else) will rent Harrison after the final four-or-so months.
So breathe simple, Dallas followers. After the previous couple of months, you definitely deserve it.
Bueckers will make $78,831.00 with Dallas in her rookie yr, together with her wage growing annually till she makes $100,510.00 in her fourth yr. In complete, her rookie contract is price $348,198.00.
Her WNBA wage is probably going her lowest earnings while you evaluate it to her different sources of income. It was reported weeks in the past that her wage for Unmatched subsequent season will surpass the four-year complete of her WNBA rookie contract — over $350,000 for simply 10 weeks of enjoying basketball.
Bueckers additionally has endorsement offers with Nike, Gatorade, Bose, Chegg, Verizon and extra, together with her 2024-2025 NCAA season NIL profile being an estimated $1.4 million US {dollars}. Because the No. 1 total draft decide, extra offers are certain to return as she enters the WNBA already ranked among the many league’s finest gamers… and considered one of its most recognizable.
For Dallas basketball followers, this signifies a brand new period within the metropolis, with a star they will get connected to as soon as once more — and one which the notorious normal supervisor of town’s NBA franchise gained’t be capable to foil.
WNBA coaching camp begins subsequent week, and Bueckers can be launched to the Dallas media in a press convention being held Wednesday morning.
