Paige Bueckers

Here's first team, Olivia Miles, Kaitlyn Clark, Kelsey Mitchell, Brianna Stewart, Asia Wilson.

Second team, Paige Buckets, excuse me, Beckers, Jackie Young, Ryan Howard, Angel Reese, and Shakira Austin.

Now, I have a couple takeaways.

First, I think people should remember that voting is done without position, so you can vote for anyone.

And I think that they will actually probably be more interested in attending universities that have programs like this because this is such a lucrative field for female athletes of like the NIL deals and having a social media presence, whereas actual like the actual leagues don't pay female athletes what they pay male athletes.

I feel like Paige Buckers, I feel like I might be mispronouncing her name, but she played for UConn, I want to say, on the Wednesday night in the WNBA.

I feel like she did a really good job of marketing herself when she was still in college.

And I would see her in commercials all the time.

And so I was flipping through my binders, 'cause that's where my, you know, lesser valuable cards are, and I genuinely think the last cheaper card, and I'm talking under $30-ish, the last cheapest WNBA card I bought was a long time ago.

[laughs] It was, um, some image variations from Bowman U of the Big Three, AKA Tamika, Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, and Paige Bueckers.

I picked up some of those, and I, I think we are gonna show them in a little bit, but I think that's the last time that- I said, you know, "The value here, it's so low compared to what some people are buying cards for, but I want them in my collection and I'm going to keep them." And they've stayed there.

They have never moved out of their place in that binder.

Um, the top two I have a Caitlin Clark Bowman U Now with the hand up to the ear getting the crowd hyped.

This is the rainbow foil variation that was inserted randomly into those Bowman U Now packs.

And then a trio of Bowman university chrome, Caitlin Clark, Paige Bueckers, and Angel Reese image variations.

These are the ones I talked about a little bit before.

Uh, you know, Gabby Williams is a, a tremendous talent, and if you want someone to get you a basket in the crunch time, there are few people over Gabby Williams that I'm taking, right? But at the same time, you, you don't have a Kelsey Plum.

You don't have a Kelsey Mitchell, a Caitlin Clark, a Paige Bueckers.

Uh, you don't have a, a point guard that is notable for going out, creating her own, getting her own, passing to, you know, for a gazillion and a half assists a game.

Like, you just don't have the big name behind your team to kind of run the show.

As someone who has embraced my backup point guard identity literally since the first years I can remember playing YMCA basketball, that was my role.

And to see Caitlin Chen, speaking back to the underdog factor of this series, especially in Golden State, Erica, you alluded to this earlier, Caitlin Chen obviously had a stellar career at UConn.

Won the title, teammate with Paige Bueckers.

I don't know that many of us expected her to have a WNBA career and to find success this soon, but that partnership with Natalie Nakase, the partnership with the Ball-halla fans, it is working so well, and I love when we see pros having fun out on the court.

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Man, I, I always tell people it's at Paige Bueckers.

Bruh, so I'm guarding her.

She come-

They gotta get in my head.

Like, they gotta make me stop me, so I think, like, them was my rookie moments of where, like, if I let them get in my head, that's how they stop me.

But the Paige Bueckers one-

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And Cunningham?

Paige Bueckers.

Bueckers, is that how you pron- yeah.

Paige, Paige Bueckers, yeah.

I would say, like, the new rookies this upcoming year is Azzi Fudd and Olivia Miles.

Those are the two top two that I've been seeing-

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... climbing up the ladder.