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 beneath the present Collective Bargaining Settlement, Bueckers is now on an unguaranteed contract for 3 years, with a fourth-year staff possibility.
Even when the brand new CBA is signed for the 2026 season, Bueckers will keep on this contract till it expires. Until 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, provided that it’s unlikely one other professional basketball staff in Dallas (or anyplace else) will rent Harrison after the final four-or-so months.
So breathe straightforward, Dallas followers. After the previous couple of months, you definitely deserve it.
Bueckers will make $78,831.00 with Dallas in her rookie 12 months, together with her wage rising every year till she makes $100,510.00 in her fourth 12 months. In whole, her rookie contract is value $348,198.00.
Her WNBA wage is probably going her lowest earnings if you evaluate it to her different sources of income. It was reported weeks in the past that her wage for Unequalled subsequent season will surpass the four-year whole of her WNBA rookie contract — over $350,000 for simply 10 weeks of taking part in 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 general draft decide, extra offers are certain to come back as she enters the WNBA already ranked among the many league’s greatest gamers… and one among 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 basic supervisor of the town’s NBA franchise gained’t be capable to foil.
WNBA coaching camp begins subsequent week, and Bueckers will likely be launched to the Dallas media in a press convention being held Wednesday morning.
