Wings' Paige Bueckers shows off NBA Street handles in big win over Tempo

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Remember the "NBA Street" line of video games from EA Sports?

Well, Paige Bueckers will have taken viewers of a certain age on a nostalgia trip with some slick ball-handling from Sunday's game.

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Bueckers led the Dallas Wings to an 89-76 road win over the Toronto Tempo on Sunday, the Wings' first-ever game and victory north of the border.

Bueckers often has said that her basketball idol is Kyrie Irving, who surely will be proud of the dribbling showcase she put on two Tempo defenders at Coca-Cola Coliseum.

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The point of the NBA Street video games is to accrue "trick points" within the structure of a 3-on-3 street basketball game in which the first team to 21 points wins. Trick points add up primarily through dribbling and faking out defenders, and one sequence in third quarter would have given Bueckers a whole lot of those trick points.

After Jessica Shepard screened off Kia Nurse, Bueckers faked a dribble move to her left and changed direction to send Laura Juskaite flying. The trailing Nurse was helpless to stop Bueckers' blow-by as she drove to the rim for a layup.

Bueckers led all players with 22 points in Sunday's win. The two-time All-Star has the Wings on course for the WNBA playoffs as the season's midway point hits; Dallas is 13-8 after winning 19 games combined in 2024 and 2025.