Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd reveal their relationship ended 'over a year ago' and discuss impact

Jeremy GoldsteinFri, November 6, 2026 at 7:33 PM UTC

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Azzi Fudd and Paige Bueckers haven't dated as WNBA teammates -Credit:Getty Images (Getty Images)

Dallas Wings guards Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd not only revealed that the celebrated pair are no longer dating but that they split "over a year ago."

Neither Bueckers nor Fudd would speak publicly about their relationship during the 2026 WNBA season. Bueckers addressed their relationship once, and that was before the campaign started.

Speaking on Friday's episode of "Fudd Around and Find Out," the pair confirmed the split. "Before we continue with anything else, Paige and I have something that we want to share with everyone. We are no longer together. I don’t know how else to say that,” Fudd shared.

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Bueckers confirmed the news. "Yeah, we're not together anymore," she stated. "It's been, for everybody wondering....it's been a while. It's been like over a year. And [I wanted] to share that because everybody's going to be like, 'Oh my gosh, they're teammates; how is this going to work?'"

"We were not together before she got drafted, so all those narratives can go to bed," Bueckers added. Dallas selected Fudd first overall in the 2026 WNBA Draft in April.

"She was not drafted because she was my girlfriend. She was drafted because she deserved it, and she's an amazing human," Bueckers continued. "Amazing basketball player, and we're still friends; we're still cool. We broke up over a year ago, so we played an entire season together."

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Bueckers, the 2025 first overall pick by Dallas, was also Fudd's teammate at the University of Connecticut. She added that the pair faced a slew of backlash in 2026 due to their perceived relationship status.

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"We don't stand for hate of any kind, like putting people down to lift us up, individually, together. Any negative nature of that kind, like we don't associate with that, we don't condone that," she said. "If you're using our names and our image to spread that, like, that's not who we are, and that's not what we're about."

Fudd and Bueckers are one of two pairs of college teammates to both be selected first overall in the WNBA Draft, joining fellow UConn stars Maya Moore and Tina Charles from 2010 and 2011.

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Bueckers spoke of her and Fudd's status once in 2026 before Friday's podcast.

"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," she said during an April press conference.

"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."

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