{"id":20777,"date":"2025-07-19T05:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/20777\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T05:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:40:13","slug":"wings-rookie-paige-bueckers-calls-azzi-fudd-her-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/20777\/","title":{"rendered":"Wings rookie Paige Bueckers calls Azzi Fudd her girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"

After multiple signs that the two were dating, Paige Bueckers<\/a> has seemingly confirmed that Azzi Fudd<\/a> is her girlfriend.<\/p>\n

During WNBA All-Star Weekend in Indianapolis, the Dallas Wings<\/a> rookie took part in several interviews on Thursday night. Most of the interviews had a common subject: Fudd.<\/p>\n

In an interview with WAG Talk, Bueckers was quizzed with fun facts about the UConn guard whom WAG Talk referred to as the Dallas star’s “D1 girlfriend.”<\/p>\n

She answered questions correctly regarding the high school Fudd attended, her accolades and the team that drafted her mother, Katie Smrcka-Duffy Fudd.<\/p>\n

Bueckers was asked about Fudd’s phone case — which reads “Paige Bueckers’ girlfriend” — that took the internet by storm. When reporters asked Bueckers to reveal her girlfriend, she replied “Azzi Fudd” with a grin.<\/p>\n

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She did not specify how long they’ve been dating.<\/p>\n

Bueckers was also asked if her life were on the line, who would she trust with a last-second shot. Without hesitation, she answered, “Azzi Fudd.”<\/p>\n

Fudd was Bueckers’ teammate with the UConn Huskies<\/a>. The Arlington, Virginia native averaged 13.6 points, two rebounds and 1.8 assists in the 2024-25 season, when she scored 24 points in the women’s national championship game against the South Carolina Gamecocks<\/a> to lead UConn to victory.<\/p>\n

Earlier in July, Bueckers was asked about her on-court sneaker rotation and how she decides what shoe to wear before revealing Fudd picks her game shoes. However, Bueckers said Fudd will not choose her All-Star Game kicks and that Nike will oversee the shoes she wears.<\/p>\n

Bueckers currently leads the Wings and all WNBA rookies in points (18.4), assists (5.5) and steals (1.7). She was the No. 1 pick of the 2025 WNBA draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After multiple signs that the two were dating, Paige Bueckers has seemingly confirmed that Azzi Fudd is her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-20777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}