{"id":337174,"date":"2026-05-19T13:36:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=337174"},"modified":"2026-05-19T13:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:06:26","slug":"azzi-fudd-paige-bueckers-lead-wings-past-mystics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/azzi-fudd-paige-bueckers-lead-wings-past-mystics\/","title":{"rendered":"Azzi Fudd, Paige Bueckers lead Wings past Mystics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"FOR_target_content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_677151\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-677151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Washington Mystics center Shakira Austin (0) and Dallas Wings guard Azzi Fudd (35) jump for a rebound throughout the second half of a WNBA basketball game in Arlington, Texas, Monday, May 18, 2026. (AP Photo\/LM Otero)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Top draft pick Azzi Fudd scored a season-high 12 points off the bench and Paige Bueckers added 18 points and 7 assists because the Dallas Wings beat the Washington Mystics 92-69 within the WNBA on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Arike Ogunbowale scored 16 points and Jessica Shepard added 12 points, 16 rebounds and 6 assists for Dallas (2-2), which won its first home game in three attempts this season. The Wings scored 23 points off 18 turnovers and led by as many as 25 points.<\/p>\n<div id=\"billboard_article\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<i id=\"art_cont\" style=\"color:#85A7BF;\">Article continues after this commercial<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>READ: WNBA scores: Sparks get off to fast start, hold off Tempo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shepard matched the league\u2019s single-game high for rebounds this season. Bueckers made 4 of 5 3-pointers, while nine of her teammates combined to go 7 of 19.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas pulled away by closing the third quarter on a 19-6 run and constructing a 66-46 lead. The Wings also scored seven of the primary nine points of the fourth to make it 73-48.<\/p>\n<p>Shakira Austin led Washington (2-2) with 12 points and Lauren Betts scored 11 off the bench. Kiki Iriafen had nine points and 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Maddy Siegrist finished with 10 points off the bench for the Wings, who had 20-plus assists for the third time in 4 games.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Mystics center Shakira Austin (0) and Dallas Wings guard Azzi Fudd (35) jump for a rebound throughout the second half of a WNBA basketball game in Arlington, Texas, Monday, May 18, 2026. (AP Photo\/LM Otero) ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Top draft pick Azzi Fudd scored a season-high 12 points off the bench and Paige Bueckers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":337175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[51890,30059,51891,657,51892,11453,2988],"class_list":["post-337174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-azzi","tag-bueckers","tag-fudd","tag-lead","tag-mystics","tag-paige","tag-wings"],"aioseo_notices":[{"message":"The permalink for this post just changed! This could result in 404 errors for your site visitors.","status":"warning","options":{"id":"0a2ae5f84bc2c0423042ed7ec22d2e40","isDismissible":true,"actions":[{"url":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/wp-admin\/admin.php?page=aioseo-redirects","label":"Add Redirect to improve SEO","class":"aioseo-redirects-slug-changed"}]},"allowedContexts":["posts"]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337177,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337174\/revisions\/337177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}