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See the full story · 2 sourcesThe WNBA has largely avoided sports betting controversies involving its own players. Now the league may have just created one.
The WNBA posted a now-deleted video on multiple official league social media accounts of Paige Bueckers and Angel Reese appearing to place a $400 bet during All-Star Weekend for an upcoming game between the Dallas Wings and Atlanta Dream.
That game was played Wednesday night, and the Dream defeated the Wings at home, 82–81.
The video showed Bueckers being asked backstage ahead of Wednesday’s game whether she remembers placing the bet with Reese.
“We did?” Bueckers replied, before the video flashed back to a moment from last weekend between the two players at All-Star Game practice.
“If ya’ll win, you get $400,” Reese told Bueckers in Chicago.
The video ended with Bueckers, from Atlanta, saying the wager was still live: “Bet. I’m standing on that.”
The WNBA posted the video Wednesday ahead of the game between the Wings and Dream, and deleted it shortly after. The WNBA, Dream, Wings, and representatives for Reese and Bueckers did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
LMAOO THEY DELETED https://t.co/1VnX0tUEh2 pic.twitter.com/ZNQAvHLJZD
— correlation (@nosyone4) July 29, 2026
After the game, Reese celebrated her win on X/Twitter, posting “DUBS IN THE MF CHAT” and including the hashtag #cuatrocientos, Spanish for 400. (Reese’s post is still up as of Thursday morning.)
DUBS IN THE MF CHAT #cuatrocientos
— Angel Reese (@Reese10Angel) July 30, 2026
The collective bargaining agreement has a clear prohibition on players gambling on the WNBA in any capacity, but it also gives the league commissioner broad latitude to determine how players are punished. Article XIV Section 5 (c) reads:
“Any player found by the Commissioner after a hearing to have been guilty of wagering (directly or indirectly), or of offering or attempting to wager, money or anything of value on the outcome, score, or any other aspect of any WNBA Competition shall, in the sole discretion of the Commissioner, be subject to a fine, suspension, and/or dismissal and disqualification from any further association with the WNBA.”
The same portion of the CBA says that the commissioner can ban players from “any further association with the WNBA” if they’re found to have fixed games.
It’s unclear whether Bueckers or Reese will be penalized.
The NBA, which owns 42% of the WNBA, is embroiled in several sports betting scandals involving Terry Rozier and Malik Beasley . The NBA also handed a lifetime ban to Jontay Porter in 2024 after he was found to be betting and influencing his own player props.
This is also not the first time in the last week that the WNBA’s official social media account had to delete a social post about Bueckers.
During WNBA All-Star Weekend, the league deleted a video of Bueckers talking about her weekend plans while inside a Chicago hotel. The original post showed the hotel’s logo in the background, revealing Bueckers’s location. It was eventually deleted and re-uploaded with a blurred background .
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