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Reigning Defensive Player of the Year A’ja Wilson will face off against Rookie of the Year candidates Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese during the 2024 WNBA All-Star game.
The Team WNBA roster was announced Tuesday night on ESPN’s WNBA Countdown before Clark and the Indiana Fever faced Wilson and the Las Vegas Aces in Nevada.
The WNBA All-Stars will compete against the U.S. women’s national team All-Stars on July 20 in Phoenix.
Voting was open from June 13 to June 20 for fans, players and media. Fans make up 50 percent of the vote, while players and media each account for 25 percent. In case of a positional tie, the fan vote was the deciding factor.
The top five fan vote recipients were:
Caitlin Clark (Fever): 700,735 votes
Aaliyah Boston (Fever): 618,680 votes
A’ja Wilson (Los Angeles Sparks): 607,300 votes
Breanna Stewart (New York Liberty): 424,135 votes
Angel Reese (Chicago Sky): 381,518 votes
Reese had an emotional reaction to learning she had made the roster her rookie season:
The ten players who received the most total votes between fans, players and media included Boston and Clark as well as the Dallas Wings’ Arike Ogunbowale and Los Angeles Sparks’ Dearica Hamby.
Six of the players who finished top-10 in voting had already been named to the Team USA roster, including Wilson and Stewart as well as the Minnesota Lynx’s Napheesa Collier, Phoenix Suns’ Kahleah Copper, New York Liberty’s Sabrina Ionescu and Las Vegas Aces’ Jackie Young.
Boston, Clark, Hamby and Ogunbowale earned automatic spots on Team WNBA due to the top-10 vote.
The other six Team WNBA players, including Reese, were voted in by the 12 WNBA head coaches from a list of the top 36 vote recepients not already named to Team USA. The full list can be found here.
No. 1 pick Clark and No. 7 pick Reese are the only rookies, and the only players making their first All-Star appearance, on an experienced roster led by the Seattle Storm’s Nneka Ogwumike with her ninth nomination.
One notable returner is Arike Ogunbowale, whose top-10 vote earned her a fourth straight All-Star nod. Ogunbowale will now look to repeat as All-Star game MVP, an honor she took hope when Team WNBA beat Team USA before the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
The Fever are the only team sending three players to Team WNBA between Reese, Boston and Kelsey Mitchell, while the Phoenix Mercury sent three to Team USA between Kahleah Copper, Brittney Griner and Diana Taurasi.
Notable names on the list of 36 but missing from the final Team WNBA roster were the Chicago Sky’s Chennedy Carter, who is tied for the team scoring lead with 14.7 points per game, and 2023 Six Player of the Year runner-up Dijonai Carrington, who is averaging 13.2 points per game in a breakout starting season for the Connecticut Sun.
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