When is Paige Bueckers making her WNBA debut? Here’s how to watch the Lynx vs Wings season opener

The new 2025 WNBA season tips off this Friday and if the spotlight was firmly on Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark last year, the 23-year-old may have to share the limelight with this year’s No 1 pick in the draft.

Paige Bueckers is counting down the days towards the start of her WNBA career, which officially begins May 16 when the Wings host none other than Bueckers’ hometown team, the Minnesota Lynx, on opening night.

The UConn star and first pick in the 2025 WNBA Draft could play a pivotal role in rebooting the Dallas franchise that missed the playoffs in 2024 with a underwhelming 9-31 record.

Bueckers was brought into an organization that hasn’t won a WNBA title since 2008, when it was then known as the Detroit Shock.

The Edina born Bueckers will also start her WNBA career, precisely a year after Caitlin Clark took the league by storm, with her presence generating global headlines for the league as well as driving record attendance and television ratings.

The Wings concluded their 2025 preseason games with a comfortable 119-52 win over Japan’s Toyota Antelopes in Arlington, Texas as the countdown to the new season begins in earnest.

How to watch Wings vs Lynx, WNBA season opener

Dallas Wings face Minnesota Lynx in the opening round of the 2025 WNBA season on Friday, May 16, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. ET in Texas.

The game will be broadcast in the USA via ION and can be streamed via Fubo.

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