'I Understand How Amazing Black Women Are': Paige Bueckers Speaks Out on Zero WNBA Black Women Head Coaches

The 2026 WNBA season is just the third time in the league’s 30 seasons that the year began with zero Black women head coaches.

You can count WNBA star Paige Bueckers among the people who want to see Black women back in the head coach role soon.

“I’m for equal opportunity and no discrimination based on what you look like (or) who you like,” Bueckers told reporters after helping the Dallas Wings beat the Chicago Sky on Sunday. The Wings guard was responding to a question about what she’d like to see happen in response to calls to increase the number of black head coaches in the league.

“I think Black women, specifically, I grew up with a lot of prominent Black women in my life that were very important to me, and how I was raised and how I grew up being my stepmom, my AAU coach. So I understand how amazing they are,” Bueckers said.




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