Azzi Fudd is right on track after a shaky start to her WNBA season. The number on draft pick has well and truly announced herself on the biggest stage. Her rookie season started slow but is now going at double speed. There were questions asked of head coach Jose Fernandez about the starting spot for Fudd. He answered back by saying that Fudd has to earn that position.<\/p>\n
She has already started to break WNBA records. In Dallas Wings<\/a>\u2019 game vs New York Liberty<\/a>, Fudd came off the bench and played 32 minutes. She became the first rookie in franchise history to hit 6 three pointers. 17 points in the third quarter made her the rookie with most points in a single quarter in WNBA history.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n At the back of breaking two records in one game, Azzi Fudd earned her first WNBA start and guess what, she broke another record.<\/p>\n Azzi Fudd is now the first drafted<\/a> rookie and second overall<\/a> rookie joining Pauline Astier to have multiple games with 20+ points this season.<\/p>\n In Dallas Wings\u2019 grand comeback victory vs A\u2019ja Wilson<\/a>\u2019s Aces, Azzi Fudd had 22 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists in 37 minutes. She hit 9-15 from field and 3-5 from three.<\/p>\n Jessica Shepard\u2019s record breaking night inspires comeback win<\/p>\n Jessica Shepard outshined everyone on the court. A\u2019ja Wilson, who is rarely the less dominant, really got beaten at her own game. Shepard outplayed A\u2019ja Wilson and the Aces with an outstanding triple double. This was the third triple-double of her career and interesting second of this season itself.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n She became the second player to have 20+ points, 20+ rebounds and 10+ assists in a single game. She scored 22 points, with 20 rebounds and 10 assists. Only player who had achieved that stat line was Alyssa Thomas<\/a> when she had 21 points, 20 rebounds and 12 assists vs Lynx in 2023. With Paige Bueckers<\/a> and Azzi Fudd clicking and Shepard playing like that, Wings might just become a huge title contender.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/p>\n Jessica Shepard\u2019s Record-Setting Stats vs A\u2019ja Wilson and Aces Have WNBA World On Its Feet<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cObviously She\u2019s Gonna Have Her Ups And Downs\u201d: A\u2019ja Wilson Talks About Azzi Fudd\u2019s Transition into the WNBA<\/a><\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m Crying\u201d: Fans Hysterically Troll Paige Bueckers\u2019 \u201cDaddy on the Grill\u201d Comment for Teammate After Dallas Release Injury Report<\/a><\/p>\n College Sports Network has you covered with the latest news, analysis, insights, and trending stories in the NBA<\/a>, WNBA<\/a>, college football<\/a>, men\u2019s college basketball<\/a>, women\u2019s college basketball<\/a>, and college baseball<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Azzi Fudd is right on track after a shaky start to her WNBA season. The number on draft…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[4662,4652,28454,49,48,3459,35092,3457,4658,82,630,36516,125317],"class_list":["post-701416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-aja-wilson","tag-alyssa-thomas","tag-azzi-fudd","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dallas-wings","tag-jessica-shepard","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-history","tag-wnba-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701416","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=701416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}