{"id":643699,"date":"2026-05-15T00:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/643699\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T00:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:54:09","slug":"dallas-wings-no-1-pick-azzi-fudd-active-vs-minnesota-lynx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/643699\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Wings&#8217; No. 1 pick Azzi Fudd active vs. Minnesota Lynx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/wings\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Wings&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0No. 1 pick from the 2026 WNBA draft is set to make her home debut.<\/p>\n<p>The team didn&#8217;t provide many details about the former UConn guard&#8217;s status. A follow-up question to coach Jose Fernandez in his pregame media availability\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/wings\/article\/dallas-wings-azzi-fudd-injury-knee-22256304.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">led to a tense exchange<\/a> as he declined to discuss Fudd&#8217;s injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to discuss anything medically in regards to her or what she has done in practice, what she hasn\u2019t done in practice,\u201d Fernandez said. \u201cShe\u2019s a big part of this team. There\u2019s a reason why we drafted her No. 1 and she\u2019s going to have a great season for the Wings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lynx come to Dallas with a notable rookie that has ties to both Fudd and to a local school. TCU&#8217;s Olivia Miles was the No. 2 pick in the draft, taken one spot after Fudd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Wings&#8217;\u00a0No. 1 pick from the 2026 WNBA draft is set to make her home debut. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[16393,14537,99,434],"class_list":["post-643699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-azzi-fudd","tag-brief","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643699","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=643699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}