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Primary 2025 WNBA draft decide Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd have been teammates at ladies’s basketball powerhouse UConn, which took the natty this yr. Whereas they have been seen by the surface world as greatest pals, many ladies’s hoops followers thought it is perhaps greater than that. Hypothesis solely ramped up when Fudd sat at Buecker’s household desk on draft night time.
Different clues adopted. Fudd, 23, who stays at UConn for a ultimate yr as a graduate scholar, posted a video final month that prompt the 2 have been collectively, following a preferred TikTok development about relationship. It confirmed Bueckers, 23, at a restaurant with Fudd, seemingly okay paying for an costly date.
Not lengthy after that, Fudd was captured on her IG Story with a cellphone case that mentioned ‘Paige Bueckers’ girlfriend.’
However simply earlier than the WNBA All-Star Recreation, happening on Saturday at Indianapolis’ Gainbridge Fieldhouse, the place the Indiana Fever and its celebrity Caitlin Clark play, Bueckers lastly made issues ‘IG official.’
In an interview with WagTalk, Bueckers was requested a collection of questions on her Division 1 girlfriend. Although she came across the query about what crew Azzi’s mom, Katie Smrcka Duffy-Fudd, was drafted to (right reply – the Sacramento Monarchs in 2001) she answered all the remaining accurately and confirmed Fudd as her girlfriend within the reveal.
So now the web hypothesis can flip to quite a few social accounts breathlessly protecting the couple’s each transfer, however this time with a affirmation.
And WNBA followers have been ecstatic concerning the couple lastly coming ahead unapologetically, responding to the video with enthusiasm and reward for WagTalk creator, Maddy.
Bueckers performed in her first All-Star Recreation, which shall be broadcast and streamed from Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Saturday, July 19 at 8:30 p.m. EST on Disney+, ESPN+ and ABC.
See social media’s response to the couple lastly going public beneath.
WNBA’s Paige Bueckers Confirms Relationship With Azzi Fudd, Social Media Salutes was initially printed on cassiuslife.com