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Alexa Philippou, ESPN
Rookie sensations Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever and Angel Reese of the Chicago Sky headline the 12-player Staff WNBA that may face the U.S. ladies’s nationwide workforce in Phoenix on July 20 within the 2024 WNBA All-Star Sport, the league introduced Tuesday evening.
Clark and Reese, the respective No. 1 and No. 7 picks within the 2024 draft, are the one first-time All-Stars of the group.
Relationship to their enjoying days at Iowa and LSU, respectively, the dynamic pair and their on-court rivalry have helped propel ladies’s basketball to a brand new period of development. Their three conferences throughout the primary two months of the WNBA season have been determined by a mixed 10 factors, and the soon-to-be All-Star teammates are the clear front-runners within the Rookie of the 12 months race, with Clark taking residence Rookie of the Month for Might and Reese incomes the distinction for June.
The Staff WNBA roster can also be highlighted by nine-time All-Star Nneka Ogwumike and six-time All-Star DeWanna Bonner. Aliyah Boston and Kelsey Mitchell give Indiana — which has seen an explosion of curiosity with Clark in tow — probably the most alternatives of any workforce with three.
The group is rounded out by the Connecticut Sun‘s Brionna Jones, Atlanta Dream‘s Allisha Gray, Los Angeles Sparks‘ Dearica Hamby, New York Liberty‘s Jonquel Jones, Minnesota Lynx‘s Kayla McBride and Dallas Wings‘ Arike Ogunbowale.
The highest 10 All-Star vote-getters — decided by 50% fan voting, 25% present participant voting and 25% media voting — have been routinely named to the All-Star Sport, with those that weren’t beforehand named to the Olympic 5-on-5 workforce assigned to Staff WNBA.
These 10 gamers have been, in alphabetical order: Boston, Clark, Napheesa Collier, Kahleah Copper, Hamby, Sabrina Ionescu, Ogunbowale, Breanna Stewart, A’ja Wilson and Jackie Young. Clark and Boston acquired probably the most fan votes, adopted by Wilson, Stewart and Reese.
With Collier, Copper, Ionescu, Stewart, Wilson and Younger on Staff USA, Boston, Clark, Hamby and Ogunbowale have been routinely named to Staff WNBA.
The league’s coaches then stuffed out the remainder of the Staff WNBA roster choosing from a listing of the subsequent 36 highest vote-getters, finally choosing Bonner, Grey, Brionna Jones, Jonquel Jones, McBride, Mitchell, Ogwumike and Reese. The U.S. nationwide workforce — which can go for an eighth consecutive Olympic gold in Paris beginning later this month — additionally options Diana Taurasi, Chelsea Gray, Brittney Griner, Jewell Loyd, Kelsey Plum and Alyssa Thomas.
Starters for each groups might be decided by their respective head coaches.
A gaggle of WNBA All-Stars beforehand performed the U.S. Olympic workforce in an All-Star Sport in 2021, which was gained by Staff WNBA and led by MVP Ogunbowale.
