NEW YORK (AP) — During a contentious

The Wings reserved the honor of the final pre-game introduction for All-Star guard Arike Ogunbowale, who led Dallas 16 points. Bueckers was second-to-last, and got the loudest ovation.The cheers from the crowd — including star Philadelphia 76ers guard and Dallas native Tyrese Maxey — were louder when Bueckers rebounded her own miss and scored for a 2-0 lead in the opening minute.

“Should have made the first one,” Bueckers said after finishing 3 of 10 from the field and missing both her 3-point attempts. She had a team-high seven rebounds and two assists, one on a 3-pointer from DiJonai Carrington that put Dallas up 51-50 in the third quarter.It wasn’t long before the Lynx took control, which made sense considering Minnesota was coming off a trip to the WNBA Finals (with a loss to the New York Liberty) and Dallas just overhauled its roster after missing the playoffs.Then there’s the difference in experience between Collier and Bueckers. Collier is a four-time All-Star who has reached the playoffs five times in six seasons. Bueckers would be thrilled to follow Caitlin Clark as WNBA Rookie of the Year.

“It was fun. It was competitive,” Buecker said of her debut. “They’re a really good team, a championship-level team. Now we have a building block to continue to build off of. We liked a lot of things, and we disliked some things. So to continue to build on things we liked and clean up the things that we didn’t. Look forward to that.”Just like she looked forward to getting the first one out of the way.

As I write this, snow is falling outside my suburban New York window, and I feel like I just

and patio umbrella for the season. And yet, with” (streaming Saturday, Dec. 7 on Max). There, Lydia (Winona Ryder), still haunted by Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton), is forced into another afterlife odyssey when her teenage daughter (Jenna Ortega) discovers a portal.

AP’s Jocelyn Noveck called it “a joyously rendered sequel that sometimes makes sense, and sometimes doesn’t, but just keeps rollicking.”— A lowkey reunion of “Love Actually” writer-director

and one of that film’s stars, Bill Nighy, is part of the new Netflix animated movie(streaming Wednesday). The film was co-written by Curtis (it’s based on his series of Christmas books) and features Nighy as the voice of Lighthouse Bill, one of the Wellington-on-Sea townspeople grappling with a winter blizzard. The storm poses challenges even for Santa, voiced by Brian Cox.