“Embrace the laborious, comprise the adversity,” she defined. “I feel like lifestyles is all about the style you acknowledge to challenges and the style you might well presumably acknowledge to stuff not going your intention, whether or not that be an exertion, a loss, all the pieces ought to encourage you in a certain intention.”

That mindset is a peek into the choice she’s bringing into the following piece of her WNBA hurry, and additionally what made her lisp yes to her most modern off-court transfer: a 3-yr partnership with CarMax, the legit auto retailer of the NBA and WNBA. She joins Cleveland Cavaliers well-known particular person Donovan Mitchell in the emblem’s “Wanna Force?” campaign, which celebrates other folks pursuing their targets on their have terms.

It’s additionally a transfer that Bueckers herself would possibly need manifested in July when she told a reporter she’d “like to admire a automobile dealership partnership, so I don’t admire to pay for a automobile.”

Having a admire support at those comments, the College of Connecticut alum joked that she hopes the leisure of her manifestations method appropriate: “The other half of of what my faded manifestation turned into proper estate or a realtor, or any individual appealing to support me salvage a rental!”

Bueckers’ new commercial with CarMax additionally puts her in the corporate of fellow WNBA stars like A’ja Wilson and Sabrina Ionescu, which she believes has been needed to increasing feminine athlete representation on TV.

You can look it increasing: the buzz, the accessibility, the representation,” she mentioned. “I feel like there's a ton of momentum that we’re attempting to proceed to protect constructing for the following period for the explanation that folk sooner than admire lead the style for us to proceed to create it. So that you appropriate are attempting to proceed to create off the momentum and proceed to peek it develop and upward push.”

And her have momentum isn’t slowing down. Within the center of the WNBA offseason, Bueckers will compete in the second season of three-on-three basketball league Unmatched. Plus, she’s taking a admire forward to the following WNBA season and adjustments interior the Dallas Wings organization—including a new head coach in Jose Fernandez, a shut buddy of Bueckers’ faded UConn coach Geno Auriemma.

“I feel like the root that we constructed final yr and the culture that we’re attempting to ship, the other folks that we’re attempting to admire in the constructing, and the other folks we’re attempting to create with is persevering with to develop,” Bueckers reflected. “I feel like there turned into plenty of most modern final yr. There's going to be some new this yr, so persevering with the style to manufacture it collectively makes it quite a bit more uncomplicated reasonably than attempting to resolve it out as other folks.”

The next season of the WBNA is coming to USA Network in Can even merely 2026.

(E! and USA Network are both phase of the NBCUniversal family.)