No. 1 pick in the 2026 WNBA Draft<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cWe were not together before she got drafted. So all of those narratives can go to bed,\u201d Bueckers said. \u201cShe was not drafted because she was my girlfriend. She was drafted because she deserved it. She\u2019s an amazing human, amazing basketball player. And we\u2019re still friends. We\u2019re still cool.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe played an entire season together,\u201d she continued. \u201cWe\u2019re the utmost professional. We care about basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bueckers also used the moment to speak out against the negativity the pair has seen online, including messages sent to their families and friends. \u201cWe don\u2019t stand for hate of any kind,\u201d she said. \u201cIf you support us, why would you hate on our teammates? Like, why would you hate on our friends? Why would you hate on our family?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes in life, there\u2019s just seasons. And sometimes in life, two people are just at different points of their life,\u201d Bueckers added. \u201cWe still support each other. We\u2019re still going to be great friends. We\u2019re still going to be great teammates.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fudd made it clear that this is all they plan to say on the subject. \u201cWe know you guys are curious and probably have a ton of questions, but we\u2019ve addressed everything that we need to and the rest will stay with us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The pair even came up with a sign-off with help from their teammates: a broken heart followed by a fist bump. As they explained, they\u2019re \u201cnot together no more, but we\u2019re still gang.\u201d<\/p>\n
The rest of the episode is a fun, wide-ranging conversation about basketball. Bueckers, who was making her long-awaited debut on the show, opened up about her first WNBA playoff run, winning gold with Team USA at the FIBA World Cup, and the Wings\u2019 upcoming move to Dallas\u2019 American Airlines Center. Fudd reflected on becoming the first rookie to win the WNBA All-Star Three-Point Contest and her plans to play overseas this winter.<\/p>\n
Listen to the full episode of Fudd Around and Find Out on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd are addressing their relationship in their own words. On the latest episode of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":908260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[379871,229563,379874,379880,379875,379876,379870,379872,16950,144390,33320,21035,99,32342,121970,126876,379873,379877,434,379878,379879],"class_list":["post-908259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-101-3","tag-dave-ryan","tag-dave-ryan-in-the-morning-show","tag-ewhite","tag-falen","tag-falenkdwb","tag-kdwb","tag-kdwb-morning-show","tag-minneapolis","tag-minnesota-news","tag-mn","tag-morning-show","tag-sports","tag-st-paul","tag-tina","tag-twin-cities","tag-twin-cities-radio","tag-war-of-the-roses","tag-wnba","tag-zach-dillon","tag-zachkdwb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908259","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=908259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}