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PAIGE BUECKERS
The high in Los Angeles on Wednesday was 90 degrees, but the temperature inside Crypto.com Arena was a lot warmer. That's because Wings rookie Paige Bueckers was on fire as she tied the single-game record for points by a rookie .
Bueckers was a one-woman show against the Sparks , and she did all she could do to will the Wings to a win. Her 44 points tied Cynthia Cooper-Dyke for the most by a rookie in a single-game, but that does come with an asterisk. Cooper-Dyke did that in 1997, the inaugural WNBA season when she was 34 after having p