Napheesa Collier records her third straight 20-point game as the Lynx improve to 3-0 and spoil Paige Bueckers’ homecoming.

They improved to 4-0 on Friday with a 76-70 win over the Connecticut Sun, the team they defeated in the semifinals in five games last season. Forward Napheesa Collier continued her stellar play to begin 2025 with 33 points on 11-of-21 shooting from the field, 11 rebounds, three assists, three steals and three blocks.

Three games into the season, Napheesa Collier sees responding as one of the strengths of this year’s Minnesota Lynx. It was proven Wednesday. Collier scored 28 points, including four clutch free

Rookie Paige Bueckers and the Dallas Wings came into Wednesday night looking for their first win of the 2025 WNBA season. Despite a double-double from the top overall pick, however, a victory wasn't in the cards against the Minnesota Lynx.

Bueckers was a big star at Hopkins High School in Minnetonka, Minn., and she then moved on to UConn, where she truly started to make her name. With the Huskies, she averaged 19.8 points, 4.7 rebounds and 4.6 assists a game while shooting 53.1% from the field and 42.3% from 3-point range.

Napheesa Collier scored 34 points to outshine the WNBA debut of Paige Bueckers, who had 10 points, in the Minnesota Lynx's 99-84 win over the Dallas Wings on Friday night.

Bueckers scored the first points of the season for the Wings, and the No. 1 overall pick in this year's draft finished with 10 in front of announced sellout.

Through three games, Bueckers has recorded 20 total assists and seven turnovers. In comparison, last season's No. 1 pick, Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark, tallied 17 assists and 21 turnovers through her first three WNBA games.