Wings' Paige Bueckers laments lack of 'equal coverage' of Black women, talks 'White privilege'

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Paige Bueckers received national attention in the middle of her collegiate career with the UConn Huskies when she lamented the lack of coverage Black women received in sports at the 2021 ESPY Awards.

Nearly four years later, Bueckers remained of the belief that Black women do not receive enough coverage from the media and added that she thinks White people benefit more from marketing opportunities.

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Paige Bueckers is interviewed by ESPN after being selected with the number one overall pick to the Dallas Wings in the 2025 WNBA Draft at The Shed at Hudson Yards in New York City on April 14, 2025. (Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images)

"It’s still an issue, every single day," the Dallas Wings rookie told Time magazine in an interview published on Monday. "There’s not ever equal coverage."

"There’s White privilege every single day that I see," she said in terms of marketing opportunities. "I feel like I’ve worked extremely hard, blessed by God. But I do think there’s more opportunities for me. I feel like even just marketability, people tend to favor White people, White males, White women. I think it should be equal opportunity. I feel like there is privilege to what I have, and to what all White people have. I recognize that. I want to counteract that with the way I go about my business."

Bueckers is set to be among the next generation of basketball stars to lead the WNBA into the future.

The rookie’s comments echoed what Caitlin Clark told Time magazine last year and what she reiterated to comedian David Letterman in her interview with him.

Paige Bueckers on the orange carpet before the