UConn basketball star Azzi Fudd set tongues wagging on Saturday, June 21, when she shared a photograph in her Instagram Story.
Fudd, 22, took the snap whereas at a hair appointment. “The best possible,” she wrote, tagging the stylist additionally within the picture, Hayley Logan. But it surely wasn’t the coiffure that caught folks’s eyes — it was Fudd’s cellphone case, which reads, “Paige Bueckers’ girlfriend.”
The picture did little to quell relationship rumors which have adopted the duo for years. Bueckers and Fudd performed collectively at UConn for 4 seasons, and Bueckers — this yr’s No. 1 total WNBA draft decide — performed a vital function in bringing Fudd to the Huskies.
Us Weekly has reached out to representatives for Fudd and Bueckers for remark.
As reported by GQ in February, Fudd was the No. 1 ranked school prospect in November 2020 when UConn approached her about becoming a member of Coach Geno Auriemma’s storied workforce (UConn has spawned a number of WNBA greats, together with Sue Fowl, Maya Moore, Breanna Stewart, and Diana Taurasi). Fudd had numerous gives from faculties, together with Notre Dame and UCLA, however Bueckers did one thing none of the remainder of the faculties did: she put collectively a recruitment video only for Fudd.
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“That is so on model for Paige, however she made a little bit spotlight video of herself from her highschool video games, passing to her teammates and giving them wide-open photographs,” Fudd informed the outlet. “She offered it to my household and was like, ‘You see all these open photographs I’m giving to my teammates? That’s going to be Azzi [if] she involves UConn and performs with me.’”
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The pair’s friendship dates again to once they had been each attempting out for the USA Basketball U16 workforce. As Fudd put it, she didn’t see Bueckers as tremendous severe competitors till they hit the hardwood. “I used to be like, Okay, I don’t have something to fret about. This little white woman? I’ll make the workforce over her,” Fudd additionally informed the journal. The duo each made the workforce, and have had a detailed friendship ever since.
That friendship has prolonged to Bueckers’ skilled profession within the WNBA. Fudd was seated alongside Bueckers’ mom and father on the WNBA Draft in Might when the Dallas Wings picked Bueckers up, simply weeks after the pair gained their first NCAA Finals championship collectively.
Fudd has since shown up at a handful of Wings video games this summer season, and Bueckers delighted the pair’s followers when she wore an Azzi Fudd shirt — together with her pal’s quantity 35 prominently displayed — the identical night time she had a huge 35-point game in opposition to the Phoenix Mercury on June 12.