For anyone whose anger at the other local basketball team is expressing itself in a switch-over to Dallas Wings fandom, or for those whose interest is piqued by the arrival of Paige Bueckers, the No. 1 overall draft pick who got here first and the WNBA’s next bonafide phenomenon, following the Wings this year will be easier than ever.
Wings fans will have three main options for watching the team’s games this season, which starts Friday when the Minnesota Lynx, who lost a five-game WNBA Finals series in 2024 to the New York Liberty, descend upon College Park Center in Arlington on Friday. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m., and pregame coverage will start 30 minutes before the game. Bueckers grew up a fan of the Lynx, spending her youth in St. Louis Park, Minn. She went to high school in nearby Hopkins before eventually leading the UCONN Huskies to the 2024 NCAA title.
“Growing up, watching the WNBA, this was everything I wanted to be,” Bueckers said in the video below, posted on social media by the WNBA. “Life really comes full circle, and God works in mysterious ways. Just to be here in Dallas, embracing a new city, a new team and a new organization, and then the opening game being against the dynasty that I looked up to so much growing up — really a full circle moment, for sure.”
If you’re watching locally, 28 of the 44 Wings games will air on KFAA Channel 29, just like most Dallas Mavericks games did in the 2024-25 season.
The Wings will also be prominently featured across the WNBA’s national broadcast partners. Of the team’s 23 nationally televised games, three will air on ESPN, two will air on ABC and 11 will air on ION. If you have YouTubeTV, DIRECTV STREAM, FUBOTV or Pluto TV, you can find ION somewhere within the recesses of your channel guide. The season opener against the Lynx will be broadcast to a national audience on ION. NBA TV (4), CBS Sports Network (2) and Prime Video (1) will also deliver Dallas Wings games to a national audience this season.
Between KFAA and the national schedule, all 44 regular season Dallas Wings games will air on linear television for the third straight season. Games airing on NBA TV and CBS Sports Network, along with those tabbed for ESPN3 and Prime Video, will also be carried locally live by KFAA. WNBA League Pass will provide access to select out-of-market Wings games, as well as every game on demand.
The Wings went 9-31 last season and will look to Bueckers and her backcourt partner Arike Ogunbowale, the league’s second-leading scorer (22.2 points per game) from last year, to engineer some upward trajectory this season. The team will be led by first-year head coach Chris Koclanes, who makes his WNBA coaching debut after serving as an assistant coach at the University of Southern California for the last two years.