The Dallas Mavericks won the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes on Monday night at the NBA draft lottery, earning the top overall selection in June's draft. That came after the Dallas Wings won the Paige Bueckers sweepstakes, winning the WNBA's draft lottery earlier this year.

Former UConn women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers has only gotten a taste of WNBA physicality less than two weeks into her first training camp with the Dallas Wings. Though she’s already feeling the challenge of battling professionals for the first time,

The Wings made Bueckers the No. 1 pick in the 2025 WNBA draft a few weeks ago, and she hopes another famous Dallas basketball player comes to watch her play this season—Dallas Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving showing up would fulfill her wish.