Earlier this month, news broke that the Sun’s owners had hired investment bank Allen & Co. to look into “all options to strategically invest in the team.”

It would be extremely fitting if Bueckers can win her first WNBA game back in Connecticut, where she became a huge basketball star with UConn. Bueckers has already had a homecoming in her home state of Minnesota when the Wings faced the Lynx last week. Now, she will have her reunion at her second home in Connecticut this week.

Bueckers has averaged 13 points, 6.3 assists and 4.3 rebounds in her first four WNBA games. She has shot 34% overall, including 33.3% from the 3-point line.

The betting market for any sport is always softest at the beginning of the season, especially if the league involves a great deal of player movement.

After unexpectedly losing her mother days into training camp, Connecticut Sun rookie Saniya Rivers returned to dominate in her WNBA debut.