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Azzi Fudd is unbreakable
Basketball s best prospect in decades couldn t be derailed by a devastating knee injury or a pandemic. The next step in Fudd s ascension: teaming with Paige Bueckers at UConn.
Outside the Lines
02/25/21
The only thing Azzi Fudd can bring herself to look at is the falling snow. She can t look at her mother, Katie, who s sitting in the passenger seat, too distraught to drive. And she won t look at her knee, which no longer looks like her knee anyway.
Her grandmother, Karen, navigates their rented black SUV through the accumulating snow. It s April 13, 2019, and they re rushing from the USA Basketball 3-on-3 U18 nationals in Colorado Springs to Denver, some 75 miles away, for an emergency MRI to see whether Azzi s injury is as bad as they all fear.