Arlington, TX (June 2, 2025) – The Dallas Wings return to the road to face the Seattle Storm Tuesday night at Climate Pledge Arena. The game will air nationally on ESPN, with tipoff slated for 8:30 p.m. CT. Pam Ward and LaChina Robinson are on the call, with Angel Gray reporting. Tuesday’s tilt marks the opening game of the Commissioner’s Cup for Dallas.

The shorthanded Wings (1-6), who were without starting point guard Paige Bueckers and key reserve Ty Harris, fell at home to the Chicago Sky 94-83 on Saturday night. Dallas saw NaLyssa Smith post her best game of the season with season highs in points (20), offensive rebounds (3), and blocks (3). DiJonai Carrington matched her season high with 16 points, while posting a season-best three steals and matching her career high with six assists.

After starting the year 3-1, Seattle (3-4) has lost three straight to move to 3-4 on the season. Most recently, the Storm fell at home to the Las Vegas Aces on Sunday, 75-70, despite 20 points from Gabby Williams.

Dallas and Seattle met two weeks ago with the Storm scoring a 79-71 win in Texas. Bueckers had a team-high 19 points while Nneka Ogwumike had game highs of 23 points and 18 rebounds. Since that game, the Wings have scored on average 88 points per game, shooting over 50-percent from the field twice and dishing 20-or-more assists three times.

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5/19 at DAL       L, 71-79

6/3 at SEA          8:30 p.m. CT

7/22 at SEA       9 p.m. CT

8/22 at DAL       6:30 p.m. CT

Paige Bueckers – Out/NWT (Concussion Protocol)

Ty Harris – Out/NWT (Left Knee)

2025 Commissioner’s Cup … Commissioner’s Cup play starts on Tuesday for the Dallas Wings. This season, the Wings will be playing for Unity Unlimited, Inc., a non-profit organization whose main mission is providing educational activities and resources to people, young and old, to foster unity and harmony within the community, the city, the state, the nation and the world regardless of race, culture or denomination.

DaLyss Wings … NaLyssa Smith had her top game of the season on Saturday night against the Chicago Sky. Smith posted a season highs of 20 points, three offensive rebounds and three blocks – matching her career best. The 6-4 forward had a season-high 10 free-throw attempts and 12 field goal attempts, while draining a triple for the second time this season.

Milestone for Myisha … Myisha Hines-Allen reached the 1,000-career rebounds mark in last Tuesday’s win at the Connecticut Sun. The 6-1 forward is in her eighth WNBA season. She is currently average 6.5 rebounds per game and has averaged 4.9 over her 206-game career. Hines-Allen, who celebrated her 30th birthday on Friday, also has over 1,600 career points 400 career assists, and 150 career steals.

Rookies On Display … All four of the first-year players on the Dallas Wings roster put up career-best numbers on Tuesday at Connecticut. Paige Bueckers led the charge with 21 points off 8-10 shooting, to go along with five rebounds, a game-high seven assists, two steals and a block. Aziaha James came off the bench to score nine points in nine minutes, going 2-3 from three while making all three free-throw attempts. JJ Quinerly added five points off the bench, going 2-2 from the field, while Luisa Geiselsöder saw her first game action and sank her lone field goal attempt.

Full Circle Moment … Dallas Wings Head Coach Chris Koclanes scored his first win as a WNBA head coach last Tuesday at the Connecticut Sun. With a large amount of family present, the New York native picked up the win where he had started his WNBA journey. Koclanes served on the Connecticut Sun staff from 2016-22, including as defensive coordinator when the Sun reached the 2019 and 2022 WNBA Finals as well as the 2020 and 2021 Semifinals.

Return to Texas … Several of the new faces on the Wings roster have strong Texas ties. DiJonai Carrington and NaLyssa Smith both played collegiately at Baylor, while Smith is a San Antonio native. Tyasha Harris was drafted seventh overall by the Dallas Wings and spent her first three professional seasons with the team before making her return this offseason.

New season, new faces … Dallas announced its official 2025 roster on May 15, consisting of just three returning players from the 2024 season (McCowan, Ogunbowale, Siegrist). The Wings’ new additions span from its draft class and free agency signings to the front office, where several key leadership additions mark a new era in franchise history.

#WingsUp … The official hashtag for the 2025 season is #WingsUp, to celebrate the franchise’s 10th season in North Texas. The Wings have advanced to the WNBA Playoffs five of their first nine seasons in Dallas, including reaching the Semifinals in 2023.

Wings expand distribution for Local Broadcasts … Two months after naming TEGNA station KFAA in Dallas-Fort Worth, its exclusive local broadcast partner, the Wings are expanding their broadcast reach through additional agreements with TEGNA, Gray Media, and Corridor Television. The agreement will triple the team’s local TV footprint, bringing free, over-the-air Wings games to 6.3 million households across 12 markets during the 2025 season. The agreements position the Wings as a league leader in geographic reach and among the best in number of households with access to local broadcasts