Dallas Wings Fill Every Event At 2026 WNBA All-Star Weekend: Who-to-Watch Guide

CHICAGO — The Dallas Wings have three players in Chicago this weekend, and for the first time all season, they’re not all wearing the same jersey. Paige Bueckers and Jessica Shepard start Saturday’s All-Star Game on opposite rosters, rookie Azzi Fudd headlines Friday’s 3-Point Contest as its only first-year entrant, and Shepard doubles back the same night for the Shooting Stars competition.

Here’s what to know about each before the weekend tips off.

Paige Bueckers: Cleared and Facing Off With Her Own Teammate

Bueckers enters her second All-Star Game as the event’s leading vote-getter, having topped all players with 1,045,051 votes in fan balloting. This year’s game uses a new format, with Hall of Famers Cynthia Cooper and Teresa Weatherspoon serving as honorary general managers who drafted from a 22-player pool.

A coin flip sent the two top overall vote-getters, Bueckers and Indiana’s Caitlin Clark, to separate rosters before the draft began, landing Bueckers on Team Coop alongside Breanna Stewart, Kelsey Mitchell, Natasha Howard, and Gabby Williams in the starting five. That puts her across the floor from Shepard, who starts for Team Weatherspoon with A’ja Wilson, Clark, Aliyah Boston, and Olivia Miles.

Bueckers arrives with an injury scare behind her. She left a July 19 win over the Los Angeles Sparks in the fourth quarter after hitting the floor hard in a collision with Nneka Ogwumike, and the Wings sat her out of a July 20 overtime loss to the New York Liberty as a precaution even after she cleared concussion protocol. She returned two days later and scored 21 points on 7-of-17 shooting in a 101-97 win over the Portland Fire, the Wings’ final tune-up before the break.

The second-year guard is averaging 20.9 points, 4.2 rebounds, and 6.2 assists while shooting 51.3% from the field and 39.7% from three-point range, and she has reached 20 points in 16 of Dallas’ 25 games this season. Bueckers told Dallas Hoops Journal that All-Star weekend reminds her of the offseason Unrivaled setup, where players who rarely cross paths during the season get to catch up. “Honestly, just hanging out with people,” she said.

Jessica Shepard: The League’s Rebounding Leader Is Doing Double Duty

Shepard earned her first All-Star selection in six WNBA seasons after signing with Dallas as a free agent in April 2026 following five years with the Minnesota Lynx. The move has coincided with a career year: Shepard is averaging 14.9 points, a league-leading 12.0 rebounds, and 5.4 assists on 59.7% shooting.

She also owns every triple-double recorded in the WNBA this season. Her fourth came in the July 22 win over Portland, an 18-point, 15-rebound, 10-assist night that moved her past Sabrina Ionescu for sole possession of second place on the league’s career triple-double list, behind only Alyssa Thomas.

Shepard adds a second event Friday, pairing with Detroit Shock great Deanna “Tweety” Nolan for the Kia WNBA Shooting Stars competition, a nod to the Wings’ history as the relocated Shock franchise. Each of the four teams pairs a current player with a legend from the same organization; Elena Delle Donne and Shakira Austin represent the Washington Mystics, Lauren Jackson and Flau’jae Johnson the Seattle Storm, and Rebekkah Brunson and Courtney Williams the Minnesota Lynx.

A Nike EYBL high school standout rounds out each roster, and the two highest-scoring teams from the first round advance to a championship round.

Azzi Fudd: The Lone Rookie Chasing 3-Point Contest History

Fudd is the only first-year player in Friday’s six-entrant 3-Point Contest field, joining Rhyne Howard, Marina Mabrey, Bridget Carleton, Natisha Hiedeman, and Janelle Salaün at Wintrust Arena. Caitlin Clark declined to participate this year, one of the storylines that opened a spot for the first overall pick from April’s draft. Entering play July 21, Fudd was tied for tenth in the league with 50 made threes.

A win would make her the first rookie champion in the event’s history; Howard is the only rookie to have previously reached the final round, doing so in 2022. Fudd is averaging 13.2 points and 1.9 assists while shooting 45.7% from the field and 38.7% from three-point range, and she became the fastest player since Tamika Catchings in 2002 to reach 40 three-pointers and 40 steals in a season, doing it in 23 games.

She’s also the first Wings player in an All-Star skills event since Arike Ogunbowale reached the final round of the 2023 Three-Point Contest and finished as a tied runner-up.

All-Star Weekend Schedule (Central Time)

• Friday, July 24: Kia WNBA Shooting Stars and State Farm 3-Point Contest, 7 p.m., Wintrust Arena (ESPN, Disney+, ESPN App)
• Saturday, July 25: 2026 AT&T WNBA All-Star Game, 7:30 p.m., United Center (ABC, Disney+, ESPN App)

Dallas returns from the break at 18-9, in the thick of the Western Conference playoff race. All three Wings will have had their moment in Chicago’s spotlight by Saturday night, and the next test comes July 29 against the Atlanta Dream.