{"id":385858,"date":"2026-07-25T02:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385858\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T02:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:03:10","slug":"dallas-rookie-azzi-fudd-wins-wnba-all-star-3-point-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385858\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas rookie Azzi Fudd wins WNBA All-Star 3-point contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CHICAGO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Azzi Fudd<\/a> of the Dallas Wings became the first rookie to win the WNBA All-Star<\/a> three-point contest, scoring 30 points in the championship round Friday night.<\/p>\n

The No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft hit her first six shots in the finals to get into rhythm. She edged Bridget Carleton<\/a>, from the expansion Portland Fire, who had 29 points in the opening round.<\/p>\n

Carleton got off to a slow start in the finals and couldn\u2019t recover, finishing with 19 points.<\/p>\n

Fudd\u2019s total matched Sabrina Ionescu<\/a>\u2018s winning number from last season. Fudd\u2019s Dallas teammate Alysha Clark<\/a> was wearing Fudd\u2019s No. 3 jersey.<\/p>\n

Elena Delle Donne, Shakira Austin and high schooler Jezelle Banks led team Washington to the Shooting Stars championship to tip off the All-Star festivities. The trio scored 31 points to edge Seattle\u2019s three in the finals, with Banks hitting two of the four-point shots from just inside halfcourt to put the team over the top.<\/p>\n

Carleton had a stellar first-round, scoring 29 points. She hit 13 of her first 16 shots. Fudd, the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft this past April by Dallas, also had a great opening round scoring 24 points. She made four of her final five shots.<\/p>\n

Carleton\u2019s hot shooting in the opening round brought the crowd, which included Jayson Tatum, Russell Westbrook, NBA commissioner Adam Silver, Dwyane Wade and Sheryl Swoopes, to its feet.<\/p>\n

Other players in the three-point contest were Atlanta\u2019s Rhyne Howard, who scored 20 points; Golden State\u2019s Janelle Salaun, who had 19 points; Toronto\u2019s Marina Mabrey, who had 18; and Minnesota\u2019s Natisha Heideman, who had 17.<\/p>\n

In the Shooting Stars competition, Seattle had 24 points to finish as runner-up after missing all of the team\u2019s four-point shots.<\/p>\n

This was the first year that the contest was conducted. A skills competition was done in previous All-Star weekends. The format was a two-round, timed shooting competition in which teams had 70 seconds to score as many points as possible from seven shooting locations around the court. The competition featured shots ranging from a layup to the four-pointer.<\/p>\n

\"Dallas <\/p>\n

Dallas Wings guard Azzi Fudd competes in the WNBA All-Star three-point shooting contest Friday.<\/p>\n

(Geoff Stellfox \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Washington had the highest score in the preliminary round, posting 35 points. Once again, Banks hit four-point shots to help her team reach the championship round.<\/p>\n

Seattle\u2019s squad needed to beat the 20 points that the Detroit\/Dallas team put up to advance to the finals. High schooler Tatianna Griffin hit two of the four-point shots to help Seattle reach the finals. Minnesota finished in fourth with 19 points with a team of Courtney Williams, Rebbekah Brunson and Ryan Carter.<\/p>\n

Detroit\/Dallas had former Shock great Deanna Nolan, Wings All-Star Jessica Shepard and high schooler Morghan Reckley.<\/p>\n

The new CBA gave Fudd $20,000 for winning the three-point contest and each participant received $10,000. That\u2019s about eight-times last season\u2019s prize money.<\/p>\n

Each shooting stars winner received $15,000. Each competitor, not including the high school players, will receive $7,500. Last year, the winners of the skills contest each received $2,575 from the WNBA.<\/p>\n

In addition, Aflac, as it\u2019s done the last two years, gave extra money to the winners. Fudd took home $40,000 for winning the three-point contest. Carleton received $30,000 for finishing second and Howard got $15,000 for placing third.<\/p>\n

Team Washington got $40,000 from Aflac with Seattle receiving $32,500 and Dallas $12,500.<\/p>\n

Feinberg writes for the Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Azzi Fudd of the Dallas Wings became the first rookie to win the WNBA All-Star three-point contest, scoring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[136051,102,104,103,136049,136054,36752,46593,136052,11774,136056,342,93658,136053,2640,136050,136055,136048],"class_list":["post-385858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-bridget-carleton","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-rookie-azzi-fudd","tag-elena-delle-donne","tag-final","tag-friday-night","tag-high-schooler-jezelle-banks","tag-no","tag-opening-round","tag-point","tag-shakira-austin","tag-shooting-stars-championship","tag-shot","tag-team-washington","tag-tipoff","tag-wnba-all-star-three-point-contest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385858","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=385858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}