Azzi Fudd's rookie year is done, and the Dallas Wings odds movement since the word came down says the board had already buried that news and moved on. The reporting is that the WNBA's No. 1 overall pick is rehabbing from arthroscopic knee surgery and plans to be a voice for a playoff-bound Dallas team the rest of the way. Good for her. The market, being the cold thing it is, priced her absence a while ago.

Here is what actually moved. Dallas opened -388 on the moneyline and sits -285 de-vigged. The Sparks went the other way, +223 out to +264. The spread? Opened -7.5 and it is still -7.5, now -105 at DraftKings, with one shop hanging -7 at -103 on the Los Angeles side. The total opened 176.5 both ways and has essentially not moved, though one book shaded the under to 175.5 -105.

That combination is the whole story. A hundred cents of moneyline drift with the spread frozen is not the market re-rating a team. It is a fat opener walking back to meet its own number. Minus 388 implies right around 79.5 percent. A 7.5-point favorite in this league usually prices closer to the mid-70s, and the prediction venues have Dallas at 75 and 74 percent, which lines up almost exactly with -285. The opener was the outlier. The correction found it. That's a tell, and it means anyone waiting for a Fudd-driven discount on the Sparks got a repriced favorite instead of a softer one.

The honest caveat: the total is the number I would actually want, and nobody has given me a reason to touch it. Fudd was not on the floor down the stretch, so there is no pace or possession math to squeeze out of this. The live question in Dallas is rotation, not roster. If word comes this week that a playoff-bound team is resting starters, -7.5 becomes a completely different animal. That would be real news. This is not that.

What I'm watching: whether -7.5 survives to Thursday night or somebody reaches for -8, and whether that 175.5 under is one book being brave or the front edge of something. Small edges over and over, no heroics.

Keep it entertainment, keep it 21+ where legal, and keep the stake yours.