WNBA Draft: Will Azzi Fudd join girlfriend Paige Bueckers as stars for the Dallas Wings?
Azzi Fudd and Paige Bueckers played together at UConn. Now the two girlfriends might reunite with the Dallas Wings in the WNBA. The post WNBA Draft: Will Azzi Fudd join girlfriend Paige Bueckers as stars for the Dallas Wings? appeared first on Outsports.
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UConn superstar Azzi Fudd has potentially two more games maximum in her collegiate career. The Huskies will play South Carolina in the Final Four for a chance to go to the National Championship on Friday.
Whether or not Fudd helps deliver UConn its 13th title, the out-and-proud upcoming professional is poised to get drafted first overall by the Dallas Wings in the WNBA Draft on April 13.
This is the second straight spring that the Wings will get the first overall pick, and last year they took another LGBTQ Connecticut star, Paige Bueckers.
When Dallas (in all likelihood) joins Bueckers and Fudd on the same team, it will be the latest instance of two lovebirds getting to work together on a WNBA court. They have been in a romantic relationship officially to the public since the summer of 2025. They also played together already on UConn and won the Natty together last March.
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Fudd and Bueckers aren’t the first couple to be on the same team in the WNBA, but they are the first couple to get drafted to the same franchise after announcing their relationship. Others were already on the same team when confirming their unions or had played in the WNBA for several years.
Lesbian couples in sports used to be considered taboo, inappropriate and was even banned by some teams.
Pat Griffin, a former coach at UMass and a former college athlete herself, wrote about the progress that these courageous gay and lesbian women have created in the last half-century. Fudd and Bueckers are active participants in the trailblazing legacy of LGBTQ women in sports living authentically while performing at the highest level on the court.
Other famous WNBA couples include Natasha Cloud and Isabelle Harrison, Alyssa Thomas and DeWanna Bonner, Breanna Stewart and Marta Xargay Casademont, and Diana Taurasi and Penny Taylor, among many others.
Dallas has been a hotbed of romance recently, as Wings star Arike Ogunbowale got married to influencer Lala Ronay in March.
Fudd and Bueckers would potentially get to play their first game together on the Wings on May 9 when the team opens the regular season against Indiana. Bueckers is coming off a Rookie of the Year win in 2025. Fudd would look to make it two-for-two for this lovely couple in this award category when the WNBA tips off.
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