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          WNBA All-Star Game 2024: How to watch, schedule, rosters

          • ESPN
          Jul 21, 2024, 06:18 AM

          The 2024 WNBA All-Star Game had a familiar feeling. Team WNBA beat Team USA 117-109 on Saturday at Footprint Center in Phoenix.

          Dallas Wings guard Arike Ogunbowale scored an All-Star record 34 points in the win and was named MVP of the 20th edition of the midseason showcase.

          The league traditionally has pitted WNBA All-Stars against the U.S. national team in Olympic years. And three years ago ahead of the Tokyo Games, Team WNBA came out on top then, too. The MVP in 2021? That's right, Ogunbowale.

          On Saturday, Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark set a rookie All-Star record with 10 assists, and Angel Reese of the Chicago Sky became the first rookie to have a double-double (12 points and 11 rebounds) in the All-Star Game.

          Breanna Stewart, who already has won two Olympic gold medals, had 31 points and 10 rebounds to lead Team USA.

          Now the WNBA heads into a monthlong break while the Olympics (July 26 to Aug. 11) are being held. The league resumes Aug. 15.

          Here's everything that went down and all the players who showed out in Phoenix.

          All-Star Game

          Led by MVP Ogunbowale, who scored all of her points in the second half, Team WNBA beat Team USA 117-109.

          Box score | Highlights | Takeaways

          Gray sweeps 3-point, skills challenge titles

          Allisha Gray made it a double.

          The Atlanta Dream guard became the first player in WNBA history to win both the 3-point and skills competition in the same year. Gray edged Jonquel Jones in the final of the 3-point shooting contest and beat Sophie Cunningham in the skills challenge final.

          Gray, who is also an All-Star on Team WNBA in Saturday's game, received $2,575 from the league for each victory, per the collective bargaining agreement, and an additional $110,000 from Aflac, which supplemented the winnings with a $55,000 bonus for the winner of each event.

          The participants for Friday's events were:

          Skills challenge

          Sophie Cunningham, Phoenix Mercury
          Allisha Gray, Atlanta Dream
          Brittney Griner, Phoenix Mercury
          Marina Mabrey, Connecticut Sun
          Erica Wheeler, Indiana Fever

          3-point shooting contest

          Stefanie Dolson, Washington Mystics
          Allisha Gray, Atlanta Dream
          Jonquel Jones, New York Liberty
          Marina Mabrey, Connecticut Sun
          Kayla McBride, Minnesota Lynx

          Team WNBA roster

          Rookies Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever and Angel Reese of the Chicago Sky were named to the 12-player Team WNBA.

          Clark and Reese, the No. 1 and No. 7 picks in the 2024 draft, are the only first-time All-Stars of the group. Nneka Ogwumike will be making her ninth All-Star appearance.

          Indiana has the most selections of any team with three.

          The Team WNBA roster:

          DeWanna Bonner, Connecticut Sun
          Aliyah Boston, Indiana Fever
          Caitlin Clark, Indiana Fever
          Allisha Gray, Atlanta Dream
          Dearica Hamby, Los Angeles Sparks
          Brionna Jones, Connecticut Sun
          Jonquel Jones, New York Liberty
          Kayla McBride, Minnesota Lynx
          Kelsey Mitchell, Indiana Fever
          Arike Ogunbowale, Dallas Wings
          Nneka Ogwumike, Seattle Storm
          Angel Reese, Chicago Sky

          How Team WNBA's All-Star roster was selected

          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 to the Olympic 5-on-5 team assigned to Team WNBA.

          Those 10 were, in alphabetical order: Boston, Clark, Napheesa Collier, Kahleah Copper, Hamby, Sabrina Ionescu, Ogunbowale, Breanna Stewart, A'ja Wilson and Jackie Young. Clark (700,735 votes) and Boston (618,680) received the most fan votes, followed by Wilson (607,300), Stewart (424,135) and Reese (381,518).

          Team USA roster

          The U.S. national team's roster was announced June 11.

          Diana Taurasi of the Phoenix Mercury, who will be appearing in her record sixth Olympic Games, headlines the roster. She will be joined by Breanna Stewart, A'ja Wilson, Chelsea Gray, Napheesa Collier, Jewell Loyd and Brittney Griner -- all of whom played on the 5-on-5 team in Tokyo in 2021.

          Kelsey Plum and Jackie Young, who helped the U.S. women win the inaugural 3x3 gold medal at the Tokyo Games in 2021, are also on the roster, along with first-time Olympians Ionescu, Alyssa Thomas and Kahleah Copper. All three played on the American team that won the World Cup in Australia in 2022.

          This is the full squad:

          Napheesa Collier, Minnesota Lynx
          Kahleah Copper, Phoenix Mercury
          Chelsea Gray, Las Vegas Aces
          Brittney Griner, Phoenix Mercury
          Sabrina Ionescu, New York Liberty
          Jewell Loyd, Seattle Storm
          Kelsey Plum, Las Vegas Aces
          Breanna Stewart, New York Liberty
          Diana Taurasi, Phoenix Mercury
          Alyssa Thomas, Connecticut Sun
          A'ja Wilson, Las Vegas Aces
          Jackie Young, Las Vegas Aces

          Snubs and biggest questions around the Team WNBA roster

          Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese as WNBA All-Star teammates has "breaking the internet" potential on gameday.

          But Seattle Storm center Ezi Magbegor being left off is perhaps "the most egregious omission ever from the WNBA All-Star Game." ESPN's Kevin Pelton, Michael Voepel and Alexa Philippou break down the All-Star Game roster.

          WNBA All-Star Game history

          Which WNBA player has appeared in the most All-Star Games? Who was the MVP each year? We've got everything you need to know about past matchups of the midseason showcase and its history.