Dallas Wings rookie Azzi Fudd out for the rest of the season

The GIST: The recently-depleted Dallas Wings dug deep and snapped the surging Indiana Fever’s five-game win streak last night, but that’s just the start of the WNBA news with rookie injuries and a superstar’s impending retirement taking center stage.

🤕 Wings rookie Azzi Fudd out for the season: The 2026 No. 1 overall draft pick will undergo surgery to address lingering knee soreness, a brutal blow for a Dallas squad that started strong, but has struggled since July’s All-Star break. Fudd notably tore her ACL twice (2019 and 2023) in the same knee.

• Elsewhere, Rookie of the Year favorite Olivia Miles limped off the court after putting on a clinic in her Minnesota Lynx’ 77–66 Wednesday win over the Golden State Valkyries.

• Miles is listed as probable for tonight’s 7:30 p.m. ET game against the Washington Mystics, but the back-to-back rookie injury scares have folks revisiting whether there’s enough downtime between the end of the NCAA season and joining the WNBA.

👋 League legend, LA Spark Nneka Ogwumike will retire at season’s end: The 2016 WNBA MVP (whose 2016 Finals-winning shot remains the stuff of legends) transformed the W from the inside out, serving as players’ union president for 10 years and representing the WNBPA through two groundbreaking collective bargaining agreement negotiations. We salute you, Madame President.