Paige Bueckers named WNBA All-Star starter for second straight season; to join two other Huskies

Paige Bueckers has been in the WNBA for two seasons.She’s been named an All-Star starter in both.The UConn women’s basketball legend and Dallas Wings guard was named an All-Star starter for the second consecutive year on Thursday.

Not only is she a starter, she was also the leading vote-getter, receiving a league-leading 1,045,051 votes from fans.Bueckers is averaging 19.9 points, 5.

9 assists and 3.8 rebounds so far this season while shooting 51.3 percent from the floor.

She, along with fellow former champion Husky Azzi Fudd, has helped engineer a turnaround for the Wings, who are 11-8 and fourth in the Western Conference. Dallas has already won one more game than they did all of last season, when they finished 10-34.The Wings were set to face the Sun in Hartford on Thursday night, with Bueckers and Fudd returning to PeoplesBank Arena for the first time as pros, and for the last of two Sun games in the capital.

Dom Amore: UConn women will get to see illustrious former teammates Paige & Azzi play in HartfordJoining Bueckers at the All-Star Game in Chicago will be two other former Huskies: Liberty star Breanna Stewart and Valkyries forward Gabby Williams.It’s the seventh All-Star selection for Stewart, who’s averaging 19.2 points and 8.

5 rebounds this season. Williams is an All-Star for the second time, with her first appearance coming last season. She’s averaging 15.

9 points and a league-leading 2.6 steals per game for Golden State, which is 13-7 and third in the West.The other All-Star starters were Indiana’s Aliyah Boston, Caitlin Clark and Kelsey Mitchell, Minnesota’s Natasha Howard and Olivia Miles, Las Vegas forward A’ja Wilson and Dallas forward Jessica Sheppard.

Twelve reserves will be announced on July 7.The All-Star Game will be played on Saturday, July 25 (8:30 p.m.

, ABC).