Mercury Star Calls Out WNBA Over Paige Bueckers Video Post

Originally posted on Athlon Sports | By Sean Deveney | Last updated Jun 12, 2025 11:11 PM ET

If you had not seen the Wednesday night matchup between the Phoenix Mercury and the Dallas Wings, and instead had only caught the WNBA highlights posted on the league's Twitter/X account, you would surely be more than a little surprised to find out this simple fact: The Mercury won the game.

Pretty comfortably, in fact. The Mercury took the lead with a little more than three minutes to go in the first half and never relinquished it after, winning by a 93-80 count.

Yet in the league's highlight video on Thursday morning, it was all about Wings star Paige Bueckers, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 WNBA draft who had been out for almost two weeks with a concussion and an illness. She came back strong, with 35 points on 13-for-19 shooting.

Still, the Mercury won, led by 20 points from Satou Sabally. The league's highlight video, though, featured 2:24 of Bueckers plays.

The Mercury, in response, put together their own highlight package, with a rather flippant caption to the post: "When we won the game but don’t have a single highlight in the 2:24 recap video from the WNBA. So we put together some Mercury highlights from last night’s game in case you watched the other video and didn’t see a single one … because there wasn’t a single one."

Phoenix star Kahleah Copper, who is out with a knee injury, chimed in to call out the WNBA, too. "Do better @WNBA," she wrote.

Do better @WNBA https://t.co/CosN2dVG0x
— Kahleah Copper (@kahleahcopper) June 12, 2025

Indeed, Bueckers is having a fine rookie campaign, and her return from injury was big news in the league. But the Wings are now 1-10. The Mercury, meanwhile, are 7-4 even without Copper, a four-time All-Star. Phoenix is in second place in the Western Conference and sits with the fourth-best record in the league.

Dallas is dead last.

This article first appeared on Athlon Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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