Boy, Paige Bueckers and Kelsey Plum sure do bring out the best in each other. Less than a week after they scored 29 and 28, respectively, in the Los Angeles Sparks’ 97-96 win over the Dallas Wings (9-27), Plum hit a buzzer-beating game winner on Wednesday to lift the Sparks (17-18) over the Wings, 81-80, at Crypto.com Arena. Bueckers’ 44 points in the loss was the highest-scoring game by any WNBA player this season.

The first-year superstar took her game to the stratosphere in the third quarter against the Sparks. With her 44-point explosion, Bueckers now has the third-longest streak of double-digit scoring games (29) by a rookie in WNBA history and became one of just 14 players ever to have more than one 30-plus point game in her rookie year. She shot an absurd 17-of-21 from the field an

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