Dallas Wings at 8-5 After Adding Draft Pick Azzi Fudd and New Coaching Staff

The Dallas Wings stand at 8-5 through June 15, 2026, their best start since the franchise moved from Tulsa to Dallas in 2016. The team finished 10-34 in 2025 and 9-31 in 2024. Those two seasons produced a combined 19-65 record.

500 in that span. Dallas hired Jose Fernandez as head coach and Curt Miller as general manager in November 2024. The club also secured the No. 1 pick in the 2026 WNBA draft lottery, drafted Azzi Fudd with that selection, re-signed Arike Ogunbowale, and added free agents Jessica Shepard, Alanna Smith, and Alysha Clark.

"This organization is turning a new leaf," Clark said. " Greg Bibb, the team's CEO and managing partner, said the front office had previously split attention between business and basketball operations. "That last year on the basketball side we probably suffered a little bit," Bibb stated.

The franchise has employed five head coaches in the past seven years and has not retained any coach longer than three seasons since the move to Dallas. Paige Bueckers, the 2025 WNBA Rookie of the Year and an All-WNBA second-team selection, attended Game 7 of the NBA Western Conference finals between the Spurs and Thunder in Oklahoma City.

She drove six hours round-trip between morning practices to watch the game at Paycom Center.

"Anytime you see success, you envy it in a way to where, like, that's what you want to be, and that's the peak you want to reach," Bueckers told ESPN the next day. " Bueckers said losses at UConn felt "like a death in the family," while the Wings' 10-34 finish in 2025 produced more than twice as many defeats as she experienced in college.