Paige Bueckers Says Relationship With Azzi Fudd ‘nobody’s Business But Our Own’

Paige Bueckers has said her relationship pinch her caller Dallas Wings teammate Azzi Fudd “is nobody’s business but our own”.

Bueckers and Fudd were assemblage teammates astatine UConn and were reunited when nan Wings chose Fudd pinch nan No 1 wide prime successful this year’s WNBA draft. The brace confirmed they were making love past year, but person offered fewer specifications of their narration since and it is uncertain if they are still moreover together.

At a property convention connected Monday, Bueckers made an opening connection during which she addressed speculation astir her narration pinch Fudd.

“Quite frankly, I judge maine and Azzi’s individual narration is nobody’s business but our own, and what we take to stock is wholly up to us,” she said.

Bueckers and Fudd person been friends since they were teenagers and played together for 4 years astatine UConn, wherever they won a nationalist title together. Bueckers said nan brace are utilized to media attention.

“Me and Azzi person ever been nan utmost professional,” said Bueckers, who nan Wings selected pinch nan No 1 prime successful nan 2025 draft. “We’ve ever conducted ourselves arsenic such, and we’ve ne'er fto thing that happens disconnected nan tribunal transportation connected to nan court. That’s what we proceed to do.

“Me and Azzi are not caller to this. We’ve been doing this for a agelong time. We person countless reps astatine it. We person a batch of acquisition pinch it, truthful we will proceed to usage that acquisition to show up and beryllium professionals, awesome teammates, awesome leaders, nan hardest workers, and proceed to show up and do our occupation and thief nan Dallas Wings triumph hoops games.”

Bueckers said she would not talk astir her narration pinch Fudd again. She besides played down talk that she had influenced nan Wings’ determination to draught Fudd.

“Azzi Fudd was a No 1 draught prime because she earned it, and it had thing to do pinch maine and everything to do pinch who she is arsenic a quality being, who she is simply a hoops player, her resilience, her spot and her career-best twelvemonth astatine UConn,” Bueckers said. “So, Azzi is her ain awesome individual person, and she should beryllium celebrated arsenic such.”

After she was drafted, Fudd told Dallas’ ABC affiliate, WFAA that she was happy to beryllium connected nan aforesaid squad arsenic Bueckers, who was named WNBA’s rookie of nan twelvemonth past season.

“Here I am, nary power successful wherever I get drafted, and I get to play pinch my champion friend again. So it really is special,” she said.

Wings wide head Curt Miller has said Fudd was selected connected merit alone.

“Words that we heard complete and complete again successful nan investigation of her was, a winner, competitor, a difficult worker,” Miller said astir nan determination to draught Fudd. “Obviously nan accomplishment group speaks for itself, an unthinkable shooter – astir apt 1 of nan quickest releases successful nan crippled today, a defender pinch a batch of competitiveness and toughness, and, ultimately, each nan intangibles that goes on pinch Azzi successful nan locker room – being unselfish, being an unthinkable teammate, being a high-basketball-IQ player. [It] each pointed america done a very deliberate and thorough process backmost to Azzi Fudd.”

The WNBA play starts connected 8 May, and nan Wings play their first crippled connected 9 May, against Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever.