Paige Bueckers and Caitlin Clark (Photos via USA Today)
With stars like Caitlin Clark, Chelsea Gray, and Sabrina Ionescu set to make headlines this WNBA season, Paige Bueckers has a lot of work to put herself amongst the elites in backcourt play.

There have been a lot of comparisons between this year’s No. 1 overall WNBA Draft pick and last year’s.

Bueckers, who joined the Dallas Wings in 2025 after leading the UConn Huskies to the NCAA title and graduating from UConn, spoke about the “media-driven” narrative that has followed the pair at least since they were in high school.

When Bueckers won the national championship with UConn this past college basketball season, plenty of comments highlighted how she’s better because she had a title.

Clark reached the National Championship game two years in a row but failed to win it both times. She became the only top-five recruit from the 2020 high school recruiting class not to win a national championship.

As Bueckers starts her WNBA career, she has decided to share her honest thoughts on constantly being compared to Clark.

“That’s what the media cares about,” Paige Bueckers told Time Magazine.

“That’s what everybody who watches basketball cares about. I used to be bothered by it. But I’ve done so much work on myself and my approach. The ability to not run a race in comparison, to run my own race and worry about that. Caitlin’s a phenomenal player. We’re also completely different players.”

Bueckers further told Cluth Points reporter Joey Mistretta that she avoids the stories by focusing on “running my own race.”

“When it comes down to it, she continued, “I don’t think me and Caitlin play at all alike. But I understand growing up in the same class, the same generation, both guards… I don’t know, but I don’t think we play alike.”

“But also, too, it’s just not worrying about that and, like I said, running my own race and staying present every single day. Those comparisons are just media driven, narrative driven. And they’re good for the game in terms of getting people to talk about it, and it being a talking point. So I’m sure we both have gotten used to it,” she continued.”

Dallas Wings Sell Out Before They Even Drafted Paige Bueckers

Paige Bueckers (Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images)
Paige Bueckers raised the expectations and excitement level for the Dallas Wings and their fans many months before the WNBA team even drafted her.

Five months before the April 14 draft, the Wings had already sold out their season ticket allotment.

Bueckers is generating the same kind of buzz around the Wings that Caitlin Clark did as the No. 1 overall pick for the Indiana Fever last year.

She has the star power to change the franchise.

Fearne Cotton has broken her silence on split from husband Jesse Wood in her first TV interview since the breakup.

Joining Lorraine Kelly on Monday’s episode of the ITV show, the TV presenter, 43, also gave an health update after having two tumours removed from jaw.

Fearne announced her split from Jesse, the son of Rolling Stones bass guitarist Ronnie Wood, in December after 10 years of marriage.

She has since made swipes at Jesse and moved on with TV director Elliot Hegarty, with the pair having been seen kissing during a recent night out.

Fearne has had a difficult few months after undergoing surgery to remove two benign tumours from her jawline, just days before her split with Jesse emerged.

She told host Lorraine: ‘It’s all very amicable and kids are doing great. I am in a very good place.’place.’

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Fearne Cotton has broken her silence on split from husband Jesse Wood in her first TV interview since the breakup

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Fearne announced her split from Jesse, the son of Rolling Stones bass guitarist Ronnie Wood , in December after 10 years of marriage (both pictured in February 2024)

Discussing her recent surgery, she added: ‘I feel very grateful to have completely recovered.

‘I feel really good. I have a lot of people reaching out who have had the same thing.’

Davina McCall, 56, announced in November she’d been diagnosed with a colloid cyst, a rare type of benign brain tumour, and has supported Fearne.

She continued: ‘Everyone needs a Davina. She’s been amazing, weird that we had the same health thing going on at the same time. She’s so calming and we speak every day. She is just the best

It comes after Fearne has seemingly made another thinly-veiled dig at her ex-husband as she gushed that she is the happiest she’s ever been in a positive update.

Speaking to Scott Mills on his BBC Radio 2 breakfast show, Fearne gushed that she is ‘really happy’ and is ‘springing out of bed in the morning ready for life’.

Scott, who has known Fearne for 25 years, said he has never seen her ‘more positive or happier’, prompting Fearne to agree and reply: ‘Yeah I feel great!’