{"id":818565,"date":"2026-07-22T12:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818565\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T12:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:27:09","slug":"dallas-wings-rookie-azzi-fudd-selected-for-wnba-all-star-3-point-contest-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818565\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Wings rookie Azzi Fudd selected for WNBA All-Star 3-point contest in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/wnba-rookie-azzi-fudd-paige-bueckers-dallas-wings-texas\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Wings rookie Azzi Fudd<\/a> has been selected to compete in the WNBA State Farm All-Star 3-point contest, the WNBA announced Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Fudd is the only rookie participating and currently ranks 10th in the WNBA with 50 made triples so far this season \u2013 the most among all rookies. <\/p>\n<p>She set <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/sports\/wings\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Wings<\/a> rookie record on May 24 with six made three-point shots in a game. <\/p>\n<p>Fudd joins Toronto Tempo star Marina Mabrey and Atlanta Dream star Rhyne Howard, who headline the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Mabrey and Howard are 1-2 in 3-pointers made this season for Toronto and Atlanta, respectively. Joining those three are Seattle&#8217;s Natisha Hiedeman, Portland&#8217;s Bridget Carleton, and Golden State&#8217;s Janelle Salaun. <\/p>\n<p>Mabrey tied the WNBA record by hitting nine 3-pointers in a game twice this season, including in her 53-point effort that tied the league record for most points in a game.<\/p>\n<p>Caitlin Clark, Sabrina Ionescu and Kayla McBride all declined invitations to participate, according to a person familiar with the decision. The person spoke on condition of anonymity to the AP because they weren&#8217;t authorized to speak publicly about it.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Ionescu topped Allisha Gray to win the title.<\/p>\n<p>The new CBA will give the 3-point contest winner $20,000 and each participant $10,000. <\/p>\n<p>The event, along with the WNBA Shooting Stars contest, will take place in Chicago on Friday, July 24 at 7 pm. CT. You can watch it on ESPN and Disney+. Then, the following day, the All-Star game, which features <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/wnba-all-star-starters-paige-bueckers-jessica-shepherd\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wings stars Paige Bueckers and Jessica Shepard<\/a> as starters, is scheduled for 7 p.m. CT.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Wings rookie Azzi Fudd has been selected to compete in the WNBA State Farm All-Star 3-point contest,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,6681,3459,82,630,229572],"class_list":["post-818565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago","tag-dallas-wings","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-women039s-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818565","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=818565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}