Three games into the season, Napheesa Collier sees responding as one of the strengths of this year’s Minnesota Lynx. It was proven Wednesday. Collier scored 28 points, including four clutch free

Paige Bueckers admired the Minnesota Lynx as a kid while cheering on each of the four WNBA championships that played a part in her ascension to becoming the first overall pick in the draft last month.

Paige Bueckers impressed in front of her hometown crowd, but the Minnesota Lynx spoiled her first WNBA game back at the all-familiar Target Center in Minneapolis as the Lynx held on to beat Bueckers' Dallas Wings 85-81 in a nail-biter Wednesday night.