All eyes on Clark, Reese and Bueckers as WNBA Season approaches

It doesn’t get much more historic than 2024 in the WNBA.

Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese took the league by storm last year, shattering records on the court, drawing in historic viewership numbers, and rapidly growing their brands off the court.

If you’re a basketball fan, it’s been hard to miss.

Clark and Reese are seemingly everywhere, and success just seems to follow them and their impact on the growth of women’s basketball seems to grow with each passing day.

That impact is also being felt in the betting space, as FanDuel has birthed a few specialty markets for the year, spotlighting the game’s youngest and brightest stars.

And in 2025, a new character has emerged. Paige Bueckers, the No. 1 pick in the 2025 draft, has arrived and is looking to make the same instant impact that Clark and Reese had in 2024.

Regarding a championship and MVP, the odds favour Clark and her Indiana Fever over Reese’s Chicago Sky and Bueckers' Dallas Wings.

The Fever have the fourth best odds to win the title while Sky and Wings both sit outside the top eight.

Clark also has the shortest odds of any player in the league to win MVP at +200 while Reese comes in at 10th with 80-1 odds to win MVP and Bueckers isn’t too far behind

Here is a look at a few other prices for these three players in award markets.

Caitlin Clark WNBA Specials

Clark's career-high in the WNBA is 35 points, a mark she will have to best by five points in a game this year as she has been priced at -210 to score 40+ points in at least one game this season.

Clark is also -160 to make eight or more threes in a game. In 2024, her highest total for threes made was seven, while she made six in a game once as well.

Finally, her 19 assists against Dallas last July set the single-game record. She is +550 to break that record again this year and is -240 to have at least one game with 16 or more assists.

Angel Reese WNBA Specials

Angel Reese had a career-best 27 points against the Seattle Storm last July and scored 25 or more points twice as a rookie in the WNBA. She has been priced at +115 to score at least 30 points in one game this year.

Reese also shattered records as a rookie for her rebounding and led the league with her 13.1 rebounds per game with a large 1.2 rebounds per game gap between her and A’ja Wilson (11.9) in second.

Reese grabbed 20 or more rebounds three times as a rookie with her best total coming against Wilson and the Aces when she had 22.

The 23-year-old is +100 to grab 24+ rebounds in at least one game this year.

Paige Bueckers WNBA Specials

Buckers hasn’t played a regular season game yet in the WNBA and expectations feel like they can’t be any higher.

The rookie is +100 to average five assists per game this season, a mark that would have had her inside the top eight in the league last year.

As a senior at UConn, Bueckers averaged 4.6 assists per game and only averaged more than five per game in one of her four seasons in college.

Bueckers also averaged 4.7 rebounds per game in college and is +140 to average five per game this year.

Finally, after aveaging 19.9 points as a senior and 19.8 points for her college career, Bueckers is +320 to score 20 points per game as a rookie in the WNBA.

Spiker’s Thoughts

In nine seasons in Dallas, the Wings have made it past the first round of the playoffs just once and have missed the postseason outright four times, including last year.

The Wings made it clear this offseason it’s time to do something different.

Lottery luck got them the first overall pick and they took UConn superstar Paige Bueckers in hopes she can help turn the franchise around. The 23-year-old is coming off a senior season where she averaged 19.9 points and 4.6 assists and helped the Huskies win their first national championship since 2016.

She joins Arike Ogunbowale, who has been the offensive catalyst for Dallas the past six years. This is the most talented squad Ogunbowale has had around her. In 2024, she averaged 22.2 points, 4.6 rebounds and 5.1 assists in 38 games.

New general manager Curt Miller made several notable additions, adding reigning WNBA Most Improved Player DiJonai Carrington, NaLyssa Smith, Tyasha Harris and Myisha Hines-Allen to the lineup.

Unlike top rookies Clark and Reese last year, Bueckers comes into a situation where the Wings made the moves to ensure they are a playoff team this year. While they aren’t considered a contender just yet, the presence of Bueckers has heightened the expectations in Dallas and if history has shown us anything, Bueckers has the goods to deliver on that hype.