Despite the doubts around Azzi Fudd, Steph Curry fiercely backed her. “Let’s give her her flowers—she’s earned every bit of this,” Curry wrote after Fudd was picked No. 1.  Well, why wouldn’t he? Curry and Fudd have a years-long mentor-mentee relationship, starting in 2018, when she attended Curry’s elite SC30 Select Camp. The Wings star is also signed to his Curry Brand. Yet, the Golden State Warriors star has never made the trip to watch Fudd play, which he now seeks to correct. 

For the entirety of her career at UConn, Azzi Fudd searched the stands for Steph Curry only to be disappointed. When Curry came as a guest on Fudd’s podcast, she took the opportunity to complain to the man himself. “Five years. Granted, I didn’t play a lot during those years or in a lot of those games. That’s still five years of opportunity that you had to come to a game, and you didn’t,” Fudd said on “Fudd Around And Find Out.” To which Curry had some blame to give. 

“I’m going to deflect the blame. You’re right. I’m going to blame Adam Silver for not scheduling us in the Northeast at a certain point, or at least giving us a day off when y’all were in the tournament,” Curry joked. “I’m also going to blame Larry Riley, who drafted me, because if I was in New York, I could have been up there no problem.” 

However, he committed to coming for her WNBA game against the Valkyries at the Chase center. “They had to put us literally on opposite sides of the coast. When you come to the Bay and come to Valhalla,” Curry said. “I’m going to try to make up for five years in one night.”

Curry has admitted in the past that “all he wanted was New York.” The Knicks held the eighth pick in the 2009 draft and both sides expected a union. Yet, at the last moment, the Warriors made a u-turn and picked the sharpshooter instead. That meant Curry played more than 3000 miles away, which gave him little chance to watch Fudd play. 

The NBA schedule is crammed and busy, making things difficult as well. But now that Fudd will play at the Chase center, Curry can finally watch his protégé play. And the Curry influence is visible  in Fudd’s game. She is a “pure shooter,” shooting 42.7% from the three-point line in college and finishing 5th in all-time career three-pointers made (292). Curry’s belief in Fudd didn’t just come from her numbers at UConn or her smooth shooting stroke. One particular moment from years ago convinced him that her mentality was different.

Steph Curry Reveals His Favourite Azzi Fudd Moment 

Azzi Fudd has had some of the craziest moments over her college career. She scored 24 points to lead UConn to their 12th title in the 2025 Championship game. She dropped a 32-point masterpiece in a win over Texas back in 2022 or the more recent 34-point one over Syracuse. However, it’s not an in-game moment that makes Curry believe in Fudd’s talent but a three-point talent back in high school. 

“I think my favorite moment though is you trying to go out here and think that you could win the three-point contest in a boot. That’s still my favorite. You remember that? You were hurt. She’s hurt, like can’t really do all the other drills, but she’s still around,” Steph said. “I think this is the second year. We came back the next year and we had like our all-star game at this high school in Oakland and we had like a halftime three-point contest.”

He further remembered not anticipating his favorite shooter participating. While competing at the USA Basketball 3-on-3 U18 nationals in April 2019, Fudd injured her knee when she came down from a contested layup attempt. She had torn her ACL and MCL and was likely still recovering from that in 2021. 

“And we’re like, I think Azzi might shoot, but she’s got literally a walking boot on. We’re like, all right, we’ll see what happens,” Curry said. “And she’s the one out here having fun. But that look of no, I do this. And so she got out there, there was cash from all around the court, every rack in a boot, in a boot. I don’t know how she calibrated the balance and all of that stuff.”

It further amplifies why Curry believes in Fudd. It will help her in the WNBA. She has not had the best start to her career, averaging 5.5 points per game in three games. There is no question on her talent. It’s just a matter of settling in and one good performance that can provide a confidence boost.