Top WNBA draft pick Paige Bueckers announces investment stake in Unrivaled league

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Paige Bueckers has had an eventful month.

During the first Sunday of the month, Bueckers helped lift UConn women's basketball back to the mountaintop. The Huskies knocked off the defending champion South Carolina Gamecocks to secure Bueckers first career NCAA title.

On Sunday, sources confirmed to ESPN that Bueckers was set to ink a three-year deal with the upstart Unrivaled, a professional women's 3-on-3 league. On Monday, Bueckers was the first player selected in the 2025 WNBA Draft.

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Paige Bueckers poses with WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert after being selected with the number one overall pick to the Dallas Wings in the 2025 WNBA Draft at The Shed at Hudson Yards. (Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images)

Unrivaled is expected to pay Bueckers more over its 10-week season, than her WNBA rookie salary will yield over the league's record-high 44 games during the 2025 season. But, on Wednesday, Bueckers' April whirlwind took another spin when she announced she was an investor in Unrivaled.

The Dallas Wings rookie confirmed her investment stake during an appearance on "Good Morning America" on Wednesday.

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"I mean, investments in women’s sports — I feel like the return on investment has been amazing," Bueckers said. "Even the first year (of Unrivaled), the numbers were shocking. They just blew it out of the water. And just to invest so much in women’s sports, it’s growing at an all-time high, and it’s just a great time to be in women's sports."

The average Unrivaled salary was more than