{"id":692650,"date":"2026-05-25T13:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/692650\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:10:10","slug":"fudd-cooks-during-historic-wnba-performance-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/692650\/","title":{"rendered":"Fudd cooks during historic WNBA performance in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW YORK (WFSB) &#8211; Former UConn star Azzi Fudd had herself a night on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The WNBA No. 1 draft pick for the Dallas Wings made history by putting up 17 of her 24 points in the third quarter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The league said that the 17 points tied for the second most points by a rookie in any quarter in WNBA history. She also connected on six three-pointers, which was the second most in a single game by a rookie in league history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fudd also added 3 steals and a couple of blocks in the 91-76 win over the New York Liberty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fudd\u2019s former UConn teammate, Paige Bueckers, also had a stellar night. She had 24 points, grabbed 6 rebounds, and dished a couple of assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For New York, Breanna Stewart, another former Husky, had a double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The win put the Wings above 500. They sit at 4-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Liberty dropped to 500. Their record is 3-3.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WFSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (WFSB) &#8211; Former UConn star Azzi Fudd had herself a night on Sunday. The WNBA No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[28454,253054,40918,4657,10427,253056,49,48,253057,3459,3457,4658,82,4664,182657,253055,630,36516],"class_list":["post-692650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-azzi-fudd","tag-azzi-fudd-wnba-history","tag-barclays-center","tag-breanna-stewart","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-new-york","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dallas-new-york","tag-dallas-wings","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-sports","tag-uconn","tag-uconn-womens-basketball","tag-wings-liberty","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}