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Team USA and Team WNBA square off in the 2024 WNBA All-Star Game on Saturday evening. This is the second time that the WNBA All-Star game will be using this format.

The last time this was used came in 2021. The Aces have four All-Stars, while the Liberty, Sun, Mercury and Fever are tied with three.

Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese face U.S. Olympic team

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July 20, 2024 at 9:37 p.m. EDT19 min ago

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The WNBA All-Star Game arrives with some additional flair Saturday night, when superstar rookies Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese will headline a team of WNBA all-stars against Team USA, the squad that will represent the United States at the Paris Olympics. Clark’s omission from the veteran-laden Olympic team sparked unending debate last month, and now she will go head-to-head against it while teaming up with her former college rival in a high-profile exhibition. Follow along for live updates and highlights from the game.  
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Saturday’s game is scheduled to begin at 8:30 p.m. Eastern time at Footprint Center in Phoenix. It is airing on ABC.

Team USA features five-time Olympic gold medalist Diana Taurasi, plus fellow former WNBA MVPs A’ja Wilson and Breanna Stewart. Brittney Griner, Sabrina Ionescu and Kelsey Plum are among the other elite players on the Olympic team.

Clark and Reese are joined by former MVPs Jonquel Jones and Nneka Ogwumike on the WNBA all-star team, which is made up of the top players who were not selected to the national team.

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19 min ago

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By Sally Jenkins

Sports columnist

Anybody else out there think Cheryl Miller needs to get back into the coaching profession based on this performance so far? She’s got the WNBA all-stars, in the space of a week, playing so well together they have 16 assists on 21 baskets — led by six assists from Clark.

And Miller doesn’t even need a whiteboard.

21 min ago

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By Glynn A. Hill

Reporter covering general and national sports

Brionna Jones’s last-second layup cut Team WNBA’s deficit to two at the buzzer. It trails Team USA 54-52 at halftime.

27 min ago

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By Sally Jenkins

Sports columnist

There’s not a lot of glamorous splashing: Team USA is just 25 percent and Team WNBA is just 21.5 percent from three-point range. But it’s a great game for playmaking, specifically from Caitlin Clark and Chelsea Gray.

30 min ago

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By Glynn A. Hill

Reporter covering general and national sports

Did you hear? Angel Reese can rebound the ball. Well.

She has a game-high six boards off the bench for Team WNBA. A’ja Wilson is the leading scorer with 13 points. Meanwhile, Chelsea Gray and Caitlin Clark are knotted with a game-high five assists.

35 min ago

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By Sally Jenkins

Sports columnist

Angel Reese just ate Breanna Stewart ALIVE on the boards for a stick back.

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37 min ago

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By Glynn A. Hill

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Caitlin Clark gets on the board with her first points on a fastbreak layup midway through the second quarter. She’s shooting 1 for 4 from the floor and 0 for 3 from three-point range.

38 min ago

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By Sally Jenkins

Sports columnist

Eaarly verdict: Ogwumike, Reese and Clark should have been on the Olympic roster.

40 min ago

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By Glynn A. Hill

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Team WNBA trails 35-32 with 5:49 to play in the half. Nneka Ogwumike and Team USA reserve Brittney Griner lead the way with eight points each.

42 min ago

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By Kareem Copeland

A look from the sideline:

43 min ago

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By Glynn A. Hill

Reporter covering general and national sports

Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese have taken the floor together for the first time in this game, nearly three minutes into the second quarter. Reese has grabbed two rebounds since her reentry and has five in the game so far.

45 min ago

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By Sally Jenkins

Sports columnist

This is very preliminary, but one of the things already at stake is the judgement of national team coach Cheryl Reeve, her choice of which vets and which newcomers to put on Team USA. How is it that the WNBA All-Stars seem to be playing with as much or more chemistry than the national team?

47 min ago

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By Glynn A. Hill

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Caitlin Clark flashed her passing ability on that recent play, putting Jonquel Jones on the front foot for a layup. Clark hasn’t scored yet early in the second quarter, but she has three assists.

49 min ago

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By Glynn A. Hill

Reporter covering general and national sports

Why did Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese not compete in other All-Star Weekend events? The quick answer: rest and relaxation.

Reese chose not to play in Friday’s skills competition so she could “enjoy” her first All-Star Weekend. Clark cited rest as her reason for not competing in the three-point contest.

51 min ago

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By Glynn A. Hill

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Rookie star Angel Reese closed the first quarter with her first points of the game. She got an offensive rebound and netted a layup to put Team WNBA ahead 24-23 at the end of the period.

51 min ago

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By Sally Jenkins

Sports columnist

Stylistically the presentation of this all-star pregame was an interesting combination of “pink” and not: players introduced in a swirl of flushed colored spotlights, but dancers in cargo pants. The whole message is, the right to define what’s feminine: “We’ll TELL you what the W stands for.”

58 min ago

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By Glynn A. Hill

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Ogwumike, a 34-year-old in her first year with the Seattle Storm after 12 seasons with the Los Angeles Sparks, is making it look easy.

A’ja Wilson tops Team USA with seven points. Her team leads 21-20 with 1:35 left in the first quarter.

1 hour ago

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By Sally Jenkins

Sports columnist

The best player on the floor so far is not on the national team: she’s Nneka Ogwumike, who has eight points on 4 of 5 shooting, in the first seven minutes for Team WNBA.

1 hour ago

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By Glynn A. Hill

Reporter covering general and national sports

Nneka Ogwumike’s pull-up jumper put Team WNBA on the board after Team USA jumped out to a 6-0 lead. It’s 10-9, Team USA, nearing the midway point in the first quarter.

1 hour ago

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By Glynn A. Hill

Reporter covering general and national sports

This midseason showcase between Team USA and Team WNBA is underway.

1 hour ago

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By Glynn A. Hill

Reporter covering general and national sports

The starters for Team WNBA: Arike Ogunbowale (Dallas Wings), Caitlin Clark (Indiana Fever), Nneka Ogwumike (Seattle Storm), DeWanna Bonner (Connecticut Sun), Jonquel Jones (New York Liberty)

The starters for the U.S. women’s Olympic team: Chelsea Gray (Las Vegas Aces), Jewell Loyd (Seattle Storm), Diana Taurasi (Phoenix Mercury), Breanna Stewart (New York Liberty), A’ja Wilson (Las Vegas Aces)

1 hour ago

Saturday’s hottest runway isn’t in Paris. It’s the All-Star Game ‘tunnel.’

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By Kelsey Baker

WNBA fashion has gained momentum for a few years, thanks to avant-garde trendsetters A’ja Wilson, Kelsey Plum and Skylar Diggins-Smith. It’s a big shift from the late 1990s and early 2000s, when players and coaches almost exclusively wore traditional business clothes, often assimilating with masculine flair (male NBA players had their own fashion crisis at the time, according to SB Nation).

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1 hour ago

Perspective: Investing in women’s sports isn’t ‘charity-pity.’ There’s money to be made.

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By Sally Jenkins

Sports columnist

Certain shortsighted business mistakes live on in jeering lore: Blockbuster rejecting Netflix comes to mind, as does Twentieth Century Fox giving up sequel rights to Star Wars. Right about now, as the WNBA counts its ratings and revenue, certain oafish sports owners occupy the same category. Let’s pick on James Dolan, as he’s demonstrative of a particular butt-headedness. This is the guy who so undersold the New York Liberty that he made them work in an arena that hosted cat shows. It now looks as if Dolan lost about $120 million when he sold the team. Who knew karma could smell so strongly of a litterbox.

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Pregame reading: Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese aren’t the only WNBA rookies making an impact

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By Glynn A. Hill

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A standout 2024 WNBA draft class has already made its mark three months into the season. At the midway point, ahead of Saturday’s All-Star Game, its two biggest stars have set records.

The All-Star Game in Phoenix precedes the Paris Olympics this summer and signals the start of a month-long league break. It pits the U.S. women’s national team against a WNBA all-star squad that excludes players heading to Paris.

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Pregame reading: Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese go from rivals to teammates

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By Kareem Copeland

PHOENIX — Caitlin Clark launched her shot at Footprint Center as the WNBA all-star team wrapped up practice with a half-court contest. The ball careened off the backboard just to the left of the square. Before Clark walked away, Angel Reese stormed toward the all-star logo and fired. The orange and white ball bounced off the middle of the square and right through the twine, and Reese turned and lifted her right arm in victory, giving high-fives to a couple of teammates before doing a little dance.

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