WNBA player Paige Bueckers has one thing to say about Azzi Fudd relationship
Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd play for the Dallas Wings in the WNBA (Getty Images)
Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) player Paige Bueckers has addressed the comments around her relationship with her new teammate Azzi Fudd.
Bueckers was the first overall pick by her team Dallas Wings in the 2025 WNBA draft, while Fudd was this year’s first overall pick for the same team.
The duo confirmed they were in a relationship in 2025, after having played together in the past and being friends since they were teenagers on the U16 USA Basketball national team.
Fudd’s signing with the Dallas Wings meant they became teammates again, which has seen them both subject to questions about their relationship.
‘Nobody’s business but our own’
But, speaking at Dallas Wings’ media day on Monday, Bueckers had a strong response, as per ESPN.
She said in an opening statement: “Quite frankly, I believe me and Azzi’s personal relationship is nobody’s business but our own, and what we choose to share is completely up to us.”
And honestly, good for them!
Bueckers said: “Me and Azzi have always been the utmost professional. We’ve always conducted ourselves as such, and we’ve never let anything that happens off the court carry onto the court. That’s what we continue to do.
“Me and Azzi are not new to this. We’ve been doing this for a long time. We have countless reps at it. We have a lot of experience with it, so we will continue to use that experience to show up and be professionals, great teammates, great leaders, the hardest workers, and continue to show up and do our job and help the Dallas Wings win basketball games.”
She said that would be the only time she would address their relationship.
Addressing unfounded suggestions that Fudd’s signing had anything to do with her, Bueckers added: “Azzi Fudd was a No.1 draft pick because she earned it, and it had nothing to do with me and everything to do with who she is as a human being, who she is a basketball player, her resilience, her strength and her career-best year at UConn.
“So, Azzi is her own great individual person, and she should be celebrated as such.”
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