Rookie sensations Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever and Angel Reese of the Chicago Sky headline the 12-player Team WNBA that will face the U.S. women&#8217;s national team in Phoenix on July 20 in the 2024 WNBA All-Star Game, the league announced Tuesday night.
Clark and Reese, the respective No. 1 and No. 7 picks in the 2024 draft, are the only first-time All-Stars of the group.
Dating to their playing days at Iowa and LSU, respectively, the dynamic pair and their on-court rivalry have helped propel women&#8217;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 front-runners in the Rookie of the Year race, with Clark taking home Rookie of the Month for May and Reese earning the honor for June.
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Reese got emotional after being informed she made the All-Star team, speaking to reporters through tears after helping Chicago beat Atlanta on Tuesday night.
&#8220;I&#8217;m just so happy. I know the work I put in,&#8221; said Reese, who had 12 points and 19 rebounds in the win. &#8220;Coming into this league, so many people doubted me and didn&#8217;t think my game would translate and I wouldn&#8217;t be the player that I was in college or better or would be worse and wouldn&#8217;t be where I am right now.
&#8220;But I trusted the process and I believed and I&#8217;m thankful that I dropped to [pick No. 7] and was able to come to Chicago. And like, it&#8217;s just a blessing. I can&#8217;t thank my teammates and my coaches enough for just believing in me and trusting me. I know all of them are going to come to Phoenix and support me. So I&#8217;m really happy right now.&#8221;
The Team WNBA roster is also highlighted by nine-time All-Star Nneka Ogwumike and six-time All-Star DeWanna Bonner. Aliyah Boston and Kelsey Mitchell give Indiana &#8212; which has seen an explosion of interest with Clark in tow &#8212; the most selections of any team with three.
The group is rounded out by the Connecticut Sun&#8217;s Brionna Jones, Atlanta Dream&#8217;s Allisha Gray, Los Angeles Sparks&#8217; Dearica Hamby, New York Liberty&#8217;s Jonquel Jones, Minnesota Lynx&#8217;s Kayla McBride and Dallas Wings&#8217; Arike Ogunbowale.
The top 10 All-Star vote-getters &#8212; determined by 50% fan voting, 25% current player voting and 25% media voting &#8212; were automatically named to the All-Star Game, with those who weren&#8217;t previously named to the Olympic 5-on-5 team assigned to Team WNBA.
Fan Voting Totals For WNBA All-Star Game VOTESCaitlin Clark, Fever(700,735)Aliyah Boston, Fever(618,680)A&#8217;ja Wilson, Aces(607,300)Breanna Stewart, Liberty(424,135)Angel Reese, Sky(381,518)
Those 10 players were, in alphabetical order: Boston, Clark, Napheesa Collier, Kahleah Copper, Hamby, Sabrina Ionescu, Ogunbowale, Breanna Stewart, A&#8217;ja Wilson and Jackie Young. Clark and Boston received the most fan votes, followed by Wilson, Stewart and Reese.
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With Collier, Copper, Ionescu, Stewart, Wilson and Young on Team USA, Boston, Clark, Hamby and Ogunbowale were automatically named to Team WNBA.
The league&#8217;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 &#8212; which will go for an eighth consecutive Olympic gold in Paris starting later this month &#8212; also features Diana Taurasi, Chelsea Gray, Brittney Griner, Jewell Loyd, Kelsey Plum and Alyssa Thomas.
Starters for both teams will be determined by their respective head coaches.
A group of WNBA All-Stars previously played the U.S. Olympic team in an All-Star Game in 2021, which was won by Team WNBA and led by MVP Ogunbowale.

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