The 2025 WNBA All-Star Recreation might be performed July 19 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark and Minnesota Lynx ahead Napheesa Collier have been named crew captains after ending as the highest two fan vote-getters. The Fever and Seattle Storm every put three gamers on the All-Star Recreation roster.
All-Star weekend suggestions off July 18 with the WNBA 3-point contest and expertise problem. In 2024, the Atlanta Dream’s Allisha Grey, who was additionally named a starter Monday, made historical past by successful each occasions in the identical 12 months.
This is the whole lot to know for the 2025 All-Star Recreation.
Leap to: The best way to watch | Starters | Choice course of | Reserves | Head coaches | Roster draft | All-Star historical past
The best way to watch
July 18: 3-point contest and expertise problem, 8 p.m. ET (ESPN)
July 19: All-Star Recreation, 8:30 p.m. ET (ABC)
All-Star reserves introduced
Washington Mystics rookies Sonia Citron and Kiki Iriafen, the Golden State Valkyries’ Kayla Thornton and the Seattle Storm’s Gabby Williams have been all named first-time All-Stars when the 2025 reserves have been launched Sunday.
Citron and Iriafen be part of Paige Bueckers as rookies who will play on this 12 months’s recreation.
The complete listing of reserves:
Crew captains Clark and Collier will draft their rosters by choosing first from the remaining eight gamers within the pool of starters after which from the pool of 12 reserves. The roster draft might be televised Tuesday (7 p.m. ET, ESPN) throughout an hourlong version of WNBA Countdown.
The league’s 13 head coaches chosen the reserves. Coaches voted for 3 guards, 5 frontcourt gamers and 4 gamers at both place and no matter convention. Coaches weren’t allowed to vote for their very own gamers.
If a participant is unable to play within the All-Star Recreation, WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert will identify the substitute.
The 2025 WNBA All-Star reserves are set 💪 pic.twitter.com/uLW92a4CXc
— ESPN (@espn) July 6, 2025
Starters named
The 4 guards and 6 frontcourt gamers who will make up this 12 months’s All-Star starters have been introduced Monday.
Nneka Ogwumike of the Seattle Storm joined WNBA greats Sue Hen, Tamika Catchings, Brittney Griner and Diana Taurasi as the one gamers in league historical past with at the least 10 WNBA All-Star picks. A have a look at the complete roster:
How the All-Star starters have been chosen
The highest 10 All-Star vote-getters — decided by 50% fan voting, 25% present participant voting and 25% media voting — have been robotically named starters to the All-Star Recreation.
The highest two vote-getters have been named captains. Clark completed with a WNBA-high 1,293,526 votes from followers and Collier obtained 1,176,020.
Click on right here for the WNBA’s launch of voting totals.
Lynx’s Reeve, Liberty’s Brondello tabbed All-Star coaches
Minnesota’s Cheryl Reeve and New York’s Sandy Brondello have been chosen Thursday as the pinnacle coaches for the WNBA All-Star Recreation.
The coaches are decided by the league standings. The pinnacle coaches of the 2 groups with the very best information by means of the top of play Thursday, no matter convention, get the All-Star honor. By the top of play Thursday, the Lynx (15-2) and Liberty (12-5) owned the 2 finest information within the WNBA.
However Reeve will not coach Crew Collier. The pinnacle coach with the very best file — Reeve — will coach Clark’s All-Star roster, as she earned probably the most fan votes. Brondello will coach Crew Collier.
How will the rosters be picked?
As All-Star captains, Clark and Collier will draft their rosters throughout an hourlong WNBA Countdown on July 8 (7 p.m. ET, ESPN). They may first choose from the pool of eight starters, adopted by the pool of 12 reserves.
Hey now, you are an All-Star (once more) 🤩 pic.twitter.com/btqQjH7uCa
— Seattle Storm (@seattlestorm) June 30, 2025
All-Star Recreation historical past
In final 12 months’s recreation, held within the lead-up to the Paris Olympics, Crew WNBA defeat the U.S. girls’s nationwide crew 117-109.
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