{"id":704681,"date":"2026-05-30T23:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T23:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/704681\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T23:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T23:04:08","slug":"wnba-scenes-from-azzi-fudd-first-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/704681\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA: Scenes from Azzi Fudd\u2019 first start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">On Thursday night in Dallas, the No. 1 pick in the 2026 WNBA Draft started for the first time in her career, and she showed why she was selected first overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">After dousing the New York Liberty with six 3-pointers and 24 points in the Dallas Wings\u2019 win in Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon, Azzi Fudd followed up with 22-point performance, going 3-for-5 from 3 and shooting 60 percent overall as the Wings defeated the visiting Las Vegas Aces, 95-87.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Paige Bueckers and Jessica Shepard served as Fudd\u2019s co-stars, with Bueckers scoring 20 points and Shepard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swishappeal.com\/post\/e0pVs2O6PIbB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">authoring an epic triple-double<\/a> of 22 points, 20 rebounds and 10 assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Swish Appeal\u2019s contributing photographer Christina Merrion was in attendance for the big night from Dallas\u2019 (possible) new Big 3. Here\u2019s what she saw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday night in Dallas, the No. 1 pick in the 2026 WNBA Draft started for the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-704681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704681","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=704681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}