ARLINGTON, Texas — Paige Bueckers will make her WNBA regular-season debut on Friday night as the Dallas Wings host the Minnesota Lynx to open the season. The occasion is being marked in her hometown of Hopkins, Minnesota, with a renaming of the city in her honor and a local brewery's offering of “Paige’s 3-Point Pale” ale.

Bueckers, who was the No. 1 draft pick this year, will make her WNBA debut with the Dallas Wings on Friday against the Minnesota Lynx.

There’s a lot of fake news that circles around on the internet,” Bueckers said, per a YouTube video from Grant A