Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese are joined by Nneka Ogwumike, DeWanna Bonner, Aliyah Boston, Kelsey Mitchell, Brionna Jones, Allisha Gray, Dearica Hamby, Jonquel Jones, Kayla McBride and Arike Ogunbowale on the Team WNBA All-Star roster.
headline the 12-player Team WNBA that will face the U.S. women's national team in Phoenix on July 20 in the 2024 WNBA All-Star Game, the league announced Tuesday.
Clark and Reese, the No. 1 and No. 7 picks in the 2024 draft, are the only first-time All-Stars of the group. Dating back to their playing days at Iowa and LSU, respectively, the dynamic pair and their on-court rivalry has helped propel women's basketball to a new era of growth. Their three meetings across the first two months of the WNBA season were decided by a combined 10 points and the soon-to-be All-Star teammates are the clear frontrunners in the Rookie of the Year race, with Clark taking home Rookie of the Month for May while Reese earned it for June.
The top-10 All-Star vote-getters -- determined by 50% fan voting, 25% current player voting and 25% media voting -- were automatically named to the All-Star Game, with those who weren't previously named U.S. 5x5 Olympians assigned to Team WNBA.With Collier, Copper, Ionescu, Stewart, Wilson and Young on Team USA, Boston, Clark, Hamby and Ogunbowale were automatically named to Team WNBA.
The league's coaches then filled out the rest of the Team WNBA roster picking from a list of the next 36 highest vote-getters, ultimately selecting Bonner, Gray, Brionna Jones, Jonquel Jones, McBride, Mitchell, Ogwumike and Reese. The U.S. national team -- which will go for an eighth consecutive Olympic gold in Paris starting later this month -- also featuresA group of WNBA All-Stars previously played the U.S.
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