Wings star Fudd out for season with knee injury

Dallas Wings star guard Azzi Fudd, the No. 1 overall pick in this year's WNBA draft, will undergo a procedure on her injured knee and miss the remainder of the season. The Wings announced Wednesday that Fudd will undergo the arthroscopic procedure on her right knee in Connecticut early next week. The sharpshooting Fudd last played on Aug. 5 and has missed Dallas' last five games. Fudd previously tore her ACL and meniscus in the same knee in 2023, after tearing the same ACL and MCL in 2019. Fudd averaged 13.1 points, 1.7 rebounds, 1.8 assists, 1.7 steals (ranking fifth in the league) and 0.8 blocks in 30 appearances this year, leading the Wings with a plus-13.1 net rating. She ranks fourth in rookie scoring and first in made 3-pointers among those first-year players. In July she became the first rookie in league history to win the WNBA 3-point contest. Fudd was selected No. 1 overall after five years at UConn, where she won the national title and Final Four Most Outstanding Player in 2025. Fudd had an injury-riddled career in Storrs, appearing in just 42 games over her first three seasons. But she remained largely healthy at the end of her time there, appearing in 34 of 40 games the season the Huskies won the championship and then all 39 her final season. The Wings have already doubled their win total from last year but have struggled after the All-Star break, going 2-7 since then and sliding down to eighth in the standings -- what would be good enough for now to earn them the final spot in the playoffs.