{"id":343368,"date":"2026-06-19T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/343368\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T21:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:29:08","slug":"azzi-fudd-joins-globe-trotting-project-b-chasing-her-dream-of-playing-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/343368\/","title":{"rendered":"Azzi Fudd joins globe-trotting Project B, chasing her dream of playing abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Azzi Fudd, the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft<\/a> this past April, will play in Project B this offseason, she announced on social media Friday.<\/p>\n

The Dallas Wings rookie joins No. 3 pick Awa Fam<\/a> as part of the new 5-on-5 league that will play all over the world from November to April.<\/p>\n

So far about a dozen players have said they\u2019ll be playing in Project B, headlined by Nneka Ogwumike<\/a>, Alyssa Thomas<\/a>, Jonquel Jones, Jewell Loyd and Kelsey Mitchell. Many young players from around the world are expected to play in the league as well.<\/p>\n

Project B will feature six teams with 11 players and compete in seven two-week tournaments across the globe in Europe, Asia and the Americas.<\/p>\n

Valencia, Spain, and Tokyo have already been announced as two of the cities that will host the new league. Tokyo will have games from March 25-April 4.<\/p>\n

Host Broadcast Services, the broadcaster of the FIFA World Cup, will be the league\u2019s production partner. They plan to stream all games.<\/p>\n

Project B will have 66 players divided into six teams. According to the organization, women\u2019s players will receive larger salaries than those currently offered by the WNBA. Fudd is making $500,000 as the No. 1 pick. The former UConn star had an NIL deal with Unrivaled, but that was only for college.<\/p>\n

Fudd is averaging 12.7 points while shooting 50.7% from the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Azzi Fudd, the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft this past April, will play in Project B…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,33395,34725,20583,14421,20584,251,41450,223,14446,122468,20577,14422,15715],"class_list":["post-343368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-azzi-fudd","tag-connecticut-news","tag-ct-news","tag-dallas-wings","tag-hartford-courant","tag-local-news","tag-max-image-preview","tag-news","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-project-b","tag-uconn-womens-basketball","tag-wnba","tag-womens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}