Paige Bueckers has arrived to save Dallas from its misery

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Good morning, Winners! An especially good morning to you, Dallas fans. Your savior has arrived.

Much to my chagrin (as a Mystics fan), Paige Bueckers is officially a Dallas Wing. The no-brainer No. 1 overall pick of the 2025 WNBA draft is going to be a game-changer for that team.

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Dallas is getting an absolute star with Bueckers. She's pretty easily the best point guard the team has had since the days of Skylar Diggins-Smith. There's a legitimate chance that she'll come in and immediately make that revamped roster into a playoff team and also command an All-Star berth as a rookie.

But we're getting a bit too far ahead of ourselves here. Let's just bask in the moment for a second. Because, well, Dallas fans, you deserve a moment!

Let's face it. These last couple of years have been pretty miserable for you. The Cowboys — your baby! — stink, have stunk for a while and will probably continue to stink for the foreseeable future. The Mavericks made one of the worst trades in NBA history, so now Luka Doncic is gone and the Mavericks stink, too. The Stars keep losing in the conference finals. The Wings have been incompetent. The Rangers won a championship a couple of years ago but have been mostly meh ever since.

To put it plainly, it just hasn't been your day for a while. Now, finally, you get to turn the page. You get it? Turn the page? Because the Wings drafted Paige Bueckers?

Yeah, sorry. That was bad.

But you get it! Paige is here. Rejoice, Dallas. You've got another prodigy on your hands. The days will be brighter. The food will taste better. The games will be more fun. It'll all be because you've got another star in your midst.

Cheers.

The new NCAA

Things are going to change in the NCAA very quickly over the next year. Yes, we're going to be seeing players getting paid by their schools as part of the House vs. NCAA settlement. But you know what else it looks like we're going to be seeing?

Roster limits.

The settlement is close to being ratified by U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilkens, a week after she asked the respective parties to iron out kinks she thought were still included. One of the more controversial pieces included in the initial draft was roster limits. Because of the $20.5 million cap imposed as part of the agreement and an unlimited amount of scholarships, schools would have to limit the number of players each roster could hold.

It seems those roster limits aren't going away, USA Today's Steve Berkowitz reports.

"The principal parties to the proposed settlement of three athlete-compensation antitrust cases against the NCAA and Power Five conferences late Monday night Pacific Time (early Tuesday morning Eastern Time) filed a revised version of their agreement that did not include any changes to roster limits that would take effect July 1 — one of the most discussed issues of a final-approval hearing U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken held last week in Oakland, California."

Final approval is still pending, but it seems like this will be a go. Gone will be the days of the humongous college football rosters we've seen through the years. Players will be paid, but scholarships might be much harder to come by because of this.

It's hard to see this not leading to more litigation down the line.

Russell Westbrook's new hobby

Russell Westbrook: Basketball player by day, stylist by night, apparently!

Westbrook worked with No. 6 overall pick Georgia Amoore to design and customize her look for the WNBA draft on Monday night. The outfit came courtesy of Westbrook's label, Honor the Gift. The two got together on a Zoom call and the rest is history. Amoore told Westbrook what she wanted and he put together a fit.

Amoore wore a black leather blazer and mini-skirt combo with white-stitch embroidery sprinkled throughout the look. Definitely looks like something Russ would put together.

This is pretty interesting. This has got to be the only time we've ever seen an athlete styled by another active athlete. That's fun! Not sure if Westbrook is going to keep doing this, but it's pretty cool that he did it here.

Quick hits: It's a boy, Bryce! ... Paige calls her teammate's shot ... and more

— Bryce Harper found out the gender of his fourth child via baseball bat. That's pretty cool. Cory Woodroof has more.

— Paige Bueckers said her teammates, Kaitlyn Chen and Aubrey Griffin, should get drafted. And guess what happened? They were drafted. What a friend.

— JD Vance has no hands. Tyler Nettuno has more.

— Here's Robert Zeglinski on the NBA's regular season actually being good last year.

— Here's the WNBA draft in photos from Caroline Darney. Lots of great looks last night.

— Here's Christian D'Andrea's look at NFL draft studs and sleepers on the offensive line.

That's a wrap, folks. Peace.

-Sykes ✌️