Paige and Azzi are no longer in a relationship. They said so on the latest episode of Fudd’s podcast, with Bueckers making the disclosure as a guest and tying the split to a timeline that reaches back more than a year.
The breakup happened before the 2026 WNBA draft. That timing matters because the two have continued to operate in public as Dallas Wings teammates while separating their personal relationship from their work.
Paige Bueckers on the split
Bueckers gave the clearest explanation of how they have handled the change. “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.”
That quote puts the relationship update in businesslike terms. Bueckers is not describing a clean break from work; she is describing a pair of players who have had to keep functioning inside the same professional structure while the personal side changed.
Connecticut to Dallas Wings
Four seasons at Connecticut from 2021 to 2025 gave Bueckers and Fudd a shared basketball language before they reached the Dallas Wings. They also went public with their relationship in 2025, when Bueckers appeared on WAG Talk on TikTok, so this was never a private story in the narrow sense; it just had not been framed this directly until now.
After April, when Fudd was drafted by the Wings, Bueckers had already laid out the operating rule. She said they would keep being professionals, great teammates, great leaders, the hardest workers, and that they would keep helping the Dallas Wings win basketball games. That is the practical answer for anyone tracking their on-court chemistry: the personal split did not change the job description.
No. 1 before 2026
The breakup sits alongside a larger roster story. Bueckers was the No. 1 pick by Dallas in the 2025 draft, and Bueckers and Fudd became the first pair of college teammates to be taken with the top pick in the WNBA draft since Tina Charles in 2010 and Maya Moore in 2011. That is the kind of shared career track that makes a public split matter beyond celebrity chatter.
Fudd’s rookie year gave the partnership more weight. She ranked fourth among all rookies with 13.1 points per game and shot 39.7 percent from three. The Dallas Wings won a franchise-record 27 games in the 2026 regular season, made the playoffs for the first time in three years, and lost in the first round to eventual-champion Golden State Valkyries. The cleanest read is simple: the relationship ended long before the latest draft cycle, but the professional partnership still has value for Dallas in the 2026 regular season and beyond.
