Jose Fernandez leads Dallas Wings to playoff contention amid roster changes
Yahoo Sports • 1 min read • Latest: Aug 26, 2026, 9:46 AM
Last updated Aug 26, 2026
The Dallas Wings, under coach Jose Fernandez, have secured a playoff spot for the first time since 2023. The team, previously last in the league, improved significantly with the addition of All-Stars Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd. However, Fudd has been sidelined due to pending knee surgery. After experiencing a rough stretch with eight losses in 11 games, the Wings bounced back to clinch their postseason berth. Their next step includes transitioning to a new $81 million training facility next year.
- •Dallas Wings secure playoff spot after last-place finish last season.
- •Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd key to the team's resurgence.
- •Fudd currently out awaiting knee surgery.
- •The team has won three straight games to clinch playoff berth.
- •New $81 million practice facility set to open next year.
- 9:46 AMYahoo Sports — Coach star Paige Bueckers? Resurrect the Dallas Wings? It’s all ‘just basketball’ to Jose Fernandez
"ARLINGTON, Texas — While relaxing courtside after a July practice, Paige Bueckers explains how she found her way into a World Cup semifinal. The tickets, via Nike, belonged to someone else. Then Victor Wembanyama canceled late. So the shoe company approached Bueckers. With no pique over pecking order — “I’m not alien status,” she notes with a grin — the Dallas Wings All-Star accepted, to the relief of whichever France fan was supposed to sit behind a 7-foot-4 velociraptor. Jose Fernandez, her ne
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