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Azzi Fudd says she is at peace with how her rookie season ended.

The Dallas Wings announced on August 19 that she would have a procedure on her sore right knee and miss the rest of the year. At her end-of-season availability Tuesday, she told reporters she was frustrated at first but believed it was the right call, per Drake Keeler of The IX. The soreness cost her the May home opener, faded, then returned in August. She was a late scratch against Golden State on August 7 and never got back on the floor: “I’ve been through rehab before, it's nothing new, I know how to attack it.”

She left a mark in the time she had. Fudd started 24 of her 30 games and averaged 13.1 points. She set the Wings’ rookie record with 62 threes, shot 39.7% from deep, and led all rookies with 1.7 steals per game.

Head coach Jose Fernandez again told reporters yesterday that the Wings saw her as the best fit for the team, according to The IX.

The next WNBA commissioner will oversee CBA talks and still work under Adam Silver.

That is the split Silver described to Annie Costabile of The Athletic today. CBA discussions, potential rule changes and player concerns sit under the "direct control of the WNBA commissioner." Silver oversees the greater organization. Because the NBA holds a controlling ownership stake in the WNBA, Silver makes the hire with the WNBA Board of Governors.

Is the line drawn in the wrong place for the job Silver described?

He says the league needs someone who can unify players with ownership. A commissioner who owns player concerns but not the final word on the organization is a go-between in that conversation.

Still, he says integrated operations bring major benefits and have not hampered the WNBA. Under this structure, the league is set to reach 18 teams by 2030 and has signed two collective bargaining agreements.

Silver also claimed that more independence is possible down the road.

FOX 9+ is picking up the Minnesota Lynx game at the Connecticut Sun on Sunday, filling a hole left by the collapse of Victory+. The noon tip airs free over the air on channel 9.2 and through several cable and satellite providers, the Star Tribune reports. Victory+ had been the team's exclusive local streaming partner on a multiyear deal announced in April.

The other stranded game, the Sept. 24 regular-season finale against the Indiana Fever, gets no separate local production. It stays on USA Network nationally. The remaining two were already national: Friday against the New York Liberty at 6:30 p.m. on ION, and Tuesday at Indiana at 7 p.m. on ESPN. The Lynx come out of the FIBA World Cup break at 31-9, first in the WNBA.

The Star Tribune calls FOX 9+ a temporary replacement, so where Lynx local games land in 2027 is the announcement to watch this offseason.

Stefanie Dolson is the only one of the Seattle Storm's 12 rostered players headed for unrestricted free agency. Most of the core is under contract for 2027, so head coach Sonia Raman is treating the last four games as development time. Bella Munson of The IX reports her priorities: point-of-attack defense, physicality on screens, multiple efforts in rotation, and sharper reads against coverages.

Seattle will play the stretch without two veterans. Ezi Magbegor tore her ACL playing for Australia at the World Cup, and Katie Lou Samuelson is out after a left knee scope. Mackenzie Holmes should see more minutes, Jaylyn Sherrod fills the second player development spot, and Natisha Hiedeman is back from a shoulder injury.

Dominique Malonga won silver with France and Awa Fam won bronze with Spain; the performance staff will assess both after the tournament before setting their minutes. Flau'jae Johnson named close games as her biggest frustration. The Storm are 0-13 in games decided by five points or fewer.