When is the WNBA All-Star Game? Team WNBA vs Team USA: Caitlyn Clark, Angel Reese
A couple of rookies are bringing new fans and a new level of publicity to the WNBA, and now Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark will headline the All-Star Game.
They have only been professionals for a month and a half, but that was more than enough time for Angle Reese and Caitlin Clark to be named to the WNBA All-Star Game in Phoenix. The two rookies will be on the same team as they take on the U.S. Olympic team that will be gearing up for Paris just a week later.
WNBA heading to the desert
Tickets sold out even before the WNBA’s All-Star team was announced on Tuesday night. The anticipation for this game is unlike any we can recall in previous years. The two rookies who have taken the league by storm will be playing on the same team, trying to knock off the team they many people believe snubbed the first year pros.
The two-day long event will take place from the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona, and the 18,422 seat arena is going to be jam packed as the world’s best players go head-to-head from the desert. It will be the final taste of WNBA action that we will have until mid August as the league takes it break while the Olympic Games are played.
Friday, July 19th is Day 1 of the All-Star weekend will feature a skills challenge and three point contest as Sabrina Ionescu will look to dazzle again after putting up a record setting score of 37 last year. While contestants haven’t been announced for either the Skills Challenge or the three point contest, Las Vegas Ace’s stars Kelsey Plum and Chelsea Gray might try to defend their crown.
Clark and Reese with a chance at revenge
Team WNBA will take on Team USA at 8 p.m. ET on Saturday, July 20th culminating the weekend full of festivities. ABC will broadcast the mouthwatering matchup before the olympic team heads to France looking for a 10th gold medal.
Team WNBA’s roster was announced on Tuesday night, and Caitlin Clark is going to be joined by two teammates from the Indiana Fever. Aliyah Boston and Kelsey Mitchell will join Clark and Angel Reese who is the only representative of the Chicago Sky.
There will be a little sense of revenge in the air after Reese and Clark were left off the Olympic roster. There was more than a bit of the controversy surrounding the decision not to include the rookies, and it’s rare that an athlete gets to face the team left them off the roster, but that’s what both rookies will have a chance to do from Footprint Center in Phoenix.