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Vogue
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Vogue
I Want What They Have: Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd
Love is a many-splendored thing, especially when you're gawking at it from the outside. In this column, we'll be examining the celebrity couples that give us hope for our own romantic futures and trying to learn what we can from their well-documented bonds. I've written the phrase 'I want what they have' on this website countless times before, but it's possible I've never meant it quite as much as I do when it comes to WNBA star Paige Bueckers and her newly confirmed girlfriend and former UConn Huskies teammate, Azzi Fudd. Bueckers and Fudd let the beat of their love build privately for four full seasons at UConn, but now they're officially together: In an interview with WAG Talk, Bueckers identified Fudd as her partner, even adding that Fudd's phone case has the words 'Paige Bueckers's girlfriend' on it. Adorable! We love an accessory-based hard launch! TikTok content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. While historically, I haven't been much of a WNBA gay (although I did attend my first Los Angeles Sparks game last week, and they won? Possibly—or, admittedly, possibly not—because I was there?), but the notion of Bueckers and Fudd falling in love while they dribbled around each other on the UConn court is so sweet, I can't even stand it. Just to make it about me a little bit more, the Huskies were the team I grew up hearing the most about, thanks to the fact that my paternal grandparents hail from Connecticut. It thrills me to think that the team whose games were on in the background while I sat my little closeted-gay self on the carpet and thought a lot about Keira Knightley is now responsible for one of the highest-profile queer relationships in women's basketball. Listening to Bueckers correctly answer a slew of questions about her 'D1 girlfriend' on WAG Talk was extremely charming, but those of us lucky enough to be homosexual (or who just pay good attention to WNBA TikTok) have had the privilege of knowing, or at least suspecting, that Bueckers and Fudd were together for a while; earlier this month, the pair met up with the Stud Budz—a.k.a. Minnesota Lynx players and besties Courtney Williams and Natisha Hiedeman—at an WNBA All-Star Weekend afterparty and were referred to as a 'power couple' by Hiedeman.
Al Arabiya
7 days ago
- Business
- Al Arabiya
WNBA players and league officials meet for CBA discussions during All-Star weekend
WNBA players and league officials met Thursday before the start of the All-Star weekend festivities for discussions on a new collective bargaining agreement. All-Stars Caitlin Clark, Paige Bueckers, and Angel Reese were among about 40 players, most wearing business suits, who took part in the first face-to-face meeting featuring players since December. Players opted out of the current CBA last October and are seeking a better revenue sharing model, increased salaries, improved benefits, and a softer salary cap. The sides are far apart in preliminary discussions and agreed to another meeting this weekend. 'I don't know that I'm going to say progress, but we had spirited conversation,' said Terri Carmichael Jackson, the executive director of the Women's National Basketball Players Association. If a deal isn't done by the end of October, some players, including Napheesa Collier and Reese, have mentioned the potential of a walkout, which could present some immediate problems. The league has two new teams in Portland and Toronto starting next season, and the expansion draft has typically been in December. Free agency usually starts in January. The league has never lost a game to a work stoppage since it started in 1997. Jackson said the sides would eventually get to a new deal though wouldn't say if they got any closer to it Thursday. 'I think we're on track to get back to meeting and to engaging in conversations that will lead us to a CBA,' she said. Jackson said Thursday was the most players the union ever had in the room and was particularly impressed by the number of young stars such as Clark who have helped spark unprecedented growth across nearly every business metric from attendance and viewership. There's also the new 2.2 billion media rights deal that will start next season, and the league plans to expand to 18 teams by 2030 with each of the three new teams paying 250 million expansion fee. Players sent the league an initial proposal in February that the league finally responded to last month. Jackson believes the sides can overcome that slow start. 'I think we have plenty of time,' she said.
Associated Press
7 days ago
- Business
- Associated Press
WNBA players and league officials meet for CBA discussions during All-Star weekend
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — WNBA players and league officials met Thursday before the start of the All-Star weekend festivities for discussions on a new collective bargaining agreement. All-Stars Caitlin Clark, Paige Bueckers and Angel Reese were among about 40 players who took part in the first face-to-face meeting featuring players since December. Players opted out of the current CBA last October and are seeking a better revenue sharing model, increased salaries, improved benefits, and a softer salary cap. The sides are far apart in preliminary discussions and agreed to another meeting this weekend. ___ AP WNBA:
Washington Post
7 days ago
- Business
- Washington Post
WNBA players and league officials meet for CBA discussions during All-Star weekend
INDIANAPOLIS — WNBA players and league officials met Thursday before the start of the All-Star weekend festivities for discussions on a new collective bargaining agreement. All-Stars Caitlin Clark, Paige Bueckers and Angel Reese were among about 40 players who took part in the first face-to-face meeting featuring players since December. Players opted out of the current CBA last October and are seeking a better revenue sharing model, increased salaries, improved benefits, and a softer salary cap. The sides are far apart in preliminary discussions and agreed to another meeting this weekend. ___ AP WNBA:
