The 2025 WNBA All-Star Recreation will likely be performed July 19 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark and Minnesota Lynx ahead Napheesa Collier have been named staff 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 ideas off July 18 with the WNBA 3-point contest and abilities problem. In 2024, the Atlanta Dream‘s Allisha Gray, who was additionally named a starter Monday, made historical past by successful each occasions in the identical yr.
Here is all the things to know for the 2025 All-Star Recreation.
Leap to: How to watch | Starters | Selection process | Reserves | Head coaches | Roster draft | All-Star history
Easy methods to watch
July 18: 3-point contest and abilities 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 were released Sunday.
Citron and Iriafen be a part of Paige Bueckers as rookies who will play on this yr’s recreation.
The complete checklist of reserves:
Crew captains Clark and Collier will draft their rosters by deciding on first from the remaining eight gamers within the pool of starters after which from the pool of 12 reserves. The roster draft will likely 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 title the alternative.
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 yr’s All-Star starters have been introduced Monday.
Nneka Ogwumike of the Seattle Storm joined WNBA greats Sue Chicken, Tamika Catchings, Brittney Griner and Diana Taurasi as the one gamers in league historical past with a minimum of 10 WNBA All-Star choices. A have a look at the total roster:
How the All-Star starters have been chosen
The highest 10 All-Star vote-getters — determined by 50% fan voting, 25% present participant voting and 25% media voting — have been routinely 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 acquired 1,176,020.
Click 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 selected Thursday as the head coaches for the WNBA All-Star Recreation.
The coaches are decided by the league standings. The top coaches of the 2 groups with the very best data via the top of play Thursday, no matter convention, get the All-Star honor. By means of the top of play Thursday, the Lynx (15-2) and Liberty (12-5) owned the 2 greatest data within the WNBA.
However Reeve will not coach Crew Collier. The top coach with the very best report — Reeve — will coach Clark’s All-Star roster, as she earned essentially 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’ll 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 last year’s game, held within the lead-up to the Paris Olympics, Crew WNBA defeat the U.S. ladies’s nationwide staff 117-109.
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