Dallas Wings rookie Paige Bueckers just made a statement that has conservatives fuming.
The number one draft pick might have instantly regretted opening her mouth on this hot-button issue.
And Paige Bueckers left sports fans shell-shocked when she made an unthinkable claim about White privilege that had everyone talking.
The bombshell drops
The former UConn star made headlines back in 2021 when she used her ESPY Awards platform to lecture America about media coverage of Black women in sports.
Now the Dallas Wings rookie is doubling down and taking her woke activism to the next level.
Bueckers dropped a bombshell in Time magazine that has patriots everywhere shaking their heads in disbelief.
“It’s still an issue, every single day,” Bueckers told Time in an interview published Monday. “There’s not ever equal coverage.”
But the basketball phenom was just getting started with her radical claims.
The shocking admission
What Bueckers said next about her own success left many fans stunned into silence.
“There’s White privilege every single day that I see,” she declared when discussing marketing opportunities in the WNBA.
Despite admitting she’s “worked extremely hard” and been “blessed by God,” Bueckers couldn’t help but undermine her own achievements with liberal talking points.
“I feel like I’ve worked extremely hard, blessed by God. But I do think there’s more opportunities for me,” Bueckers continued, essentially dismissing her own talent and hard work. “I feel like even just marketability, people tend to favor White people, White males, White women.”
The rookie went on to engage in the kind of self-flagellation that has become all too common in professional sports these days.
“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,” she declared.
Paige Bueckers went viral in 2021 for her speech at the ESPYs when she shined a light on Black athletes.
When asked in 2025 by @TIME, she says Black women remain undercovered. pic.twitter.com/IvCoh5qGVw
— The Sporting News (@sportingnews) May 5, 2025
The woke contagion spreads
If Bueckers’ comments sound familiar, that’s because they echo almost word-for-word what Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark said in her interview with left-wing comedian David Letterman.
“I definitely have privilege,” Clark told Letterman on Netflix’s “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction.” “I’m obviously White but I think… I’m somebody that grew up a huge fan of this league. I grew up watching this league, going to games, supporting this league. So, I know where this league comes from.”
Clark pushed the same narrative in Time magazine last year: “I want to say I’ve earned every single thing, but as a White person, there is privilege. A lot of those players in the league that have been really good have been Black players. This league has kind of been built on them.”
Sports turned into political battleground
Both Bueckers and Clark represent a new generation of WNBA stars who seem determined to mix radical politics with basketball.
The two players brought unprecedented attention to women’s college basketball with their remarkable on-court talents, breaking viewership records and attracting new fans to the sport.
But instead of focusing on their skills and the game they love, they’ve chosen to push divisive identity politics that many Americans are tired of hearing about.
Bueckers is the latest top pick for the Dallas Wings, while Clark made her preseason debut with the Indiana Fever on Sunday, May 4, playing against the Brazil national team at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City.
Many sports fans just want to enjoy the incredible basketball these women play without being lectured about supposed systemic racism at every turn.
The real privilege these athletes enjoy is making millions of dollars playing a game they love in the greatest country on earth – something they seem reluctant to acknowledge.
