Coach star Paige Bueckers? Resurrect the Dallas Wings? It’s all ‘just basketball’ to Jose Fernandez‎

ARLINGTON, Texas — While relaxing courtside after a July practice, Paige Bueckers explains how she found her way into a World Cup semifinal. The tickets, via Nike, belonged to someone else. Then Victor Wembanyama canceled late. So the shoe company approached Bueckers. With no pique over pecking order — “I’m not alien status,” she notes with a grin — the Dallas Wings All-Star accepted, to the relief of whichever France fan was supposed to sit behind a 7-foot-4 velociraptor. Jose Fernandez, her ne