Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese headline Group WNBA All-Star squad TERMAN WEBSITE

Rookie sensations Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever and Angel Reese of the Chicago Sky headline the 12-player Group WNBA that may face the U.S. ladies’s nationwide staff in Phoenix on July 20 within the 2024 WNBA All-Star Recreation, the league introduced Tuesday night time.

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.

Courting 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 12 months race, with Clark taking residence Rookie of the Month for Could and Reese incomes the consideration for June.

The Group 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 — essentially the most alternatives 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 Recreation, with those that weren’t beforehand named to the Olympic 5-on-5 staff assigned to Group 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 acquired essentially the most fan votes, adopted by Wilson, Stewart and Reese.

With Collier, Copper, Ionescu, Stewart, Wilson and Younger on Group USA, Boston, Clark, Hamby and Ogunbowale had been routinely named to Group WNBA.

The league’s coaches then stuffed out the remainder of the Group WNBA roster selecting from an inventory of the following 36 highest vote-getters, finally deciding on 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 will likely be decided by their respective head coaches.

A bunch of WNBA All-Stars beforehand performed the U.S. Olympic staff in an All-Star Recreation in 2021, which was gained by Group WNBA and led by MVP Ogunbowale.