In her return to Minnesota, victory eludes Paige Bueckers as she reaches a WNBA milestone

MINNEAPOLIS — Less than a minute remained on the clock as Paige Bueckers held the ball in her hands in an all-too-familiar arena. In the third WNBA game of her budding professional career, Bueckers was shooting and dribbling in a venue that she played in as a high schooler and college athlete. Her star was born less than 10 miles from the Target Center in St. Louis Park and Hopkins High School. She knows how the ball bounces on this floor and she is intimately familiar with how the cheers and boos echo off the walls here.

As her Dallas Wings trailed by five points, Bueckers pivoted and pulled

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