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 staff in Phoenix on July 20 within the 2024 WNBA All-Star Sport, the league introduced Tuesday.
Clark and Reese, the No. 1 and No. 7 picks within the 2024 draft, are the one first-time All-Stars of the group.
Courting again to their taking part in 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 progress. Their three conferences throughout the primary two months of the WNBA season had 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 Yr 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. Clark’s Fever teammates Aliyah Boston and Kelsey Mitchell give Indiana — which has seen an explosion of curiosity with Clark in tow — essentially the most choices of any staff with three.
The group is rounded out by the Connecticut Solar’s Brionna Jones, Atlanta Dream’s Allisha Grey, 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 — had been routinely named to the All-Star Sport, with those that weren’t beforehand named to the Olympic 5-on-5 staff assigned to Staff WNBA.
These 10 gamers had been, in alphabetical order: Boston, Clark, Napheesa Collier, Kahleah Copper, Hamby, Sabrina Ionescu, Ogunbowale, Breanna Stewart, A’ja Wilson and Jackie Younger. Clark and Boston obtained essentially 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 had been routinely named to Staff WNBA.
The league’s coaches then stuffed out the remainder of the Staff WNBA roster selecting from a listing of the following 36 highest vote-getters, finally choosing Bonner, Grey, Brionna Jones, Jonquel Jones, McBride, Mitchell, Ogwumike and Reese. The U.S. nationwide staff — which can go for an eighth consecutive Olympic gold in Paris beginning later this month — additionally options Diana Taurasi, Chelsea Grey, Brittney Griner, Jewell Loyd, Kelsey Plum and Alyssa Thomas.
Starters for each groups shall be decided by their respective head coaches.
A bunch of WNBA All-Stars beforehand performed the U.S. Olympic staff in an All-Star Sport in 2021, which was gained by Staff WNBA led by MVP Ogunbowale.