NEW YORK, June 30, 2021-- ATT WNBA All-Star 2021, to be played Wednesday, July 14 at Michelob ULTRA Arena at Mandalay Bay Resort and Gambling Enterprise in Las Vegas, will certainly showcase the WNBA's largest and brightest stars under one roof covering when the WNBA's top ability contest against one an additional in a clash between WNBA All-Stars versus the USA Basketball Female's National Team voted-in as part of a mix of follower, gamer, media, and instructor ballot. The 17th WNBA All-Star Game will be relayed obey ESPN at 7 p. m. 2021 ATT WNBA All Star Game is just one of numerous crucial elements of the party of the WNBA's 25th season, which will certainly remain to identify the amazing accomplishments of players to date while also working as a commemorative send-off of the WNBA players that will certainly contend in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Offering as Co-Head Coaches of Team WNBA will be WNBA Legends Lisa Leslie and Tina Thompson. Both Leslie and Thompson are amongst the most embellished gamers in organization history. Each was named to the WNBA's All-Decade Group in 2006. Each also was among the honorees in 2016 when the WNBA unveiled its "Top 20celebrating the 20 biggest and most prominent gamers in its background. The United States Women's National Team will be under the direction of Head Coach Dawn Staley, herself a participant of the WNBA's All-Decade Team. As component of the league's 25th period parties, the WNBA will certainly additionally recognize the gold-medal winning 1996 U. S. Olympic Women's Basketball Team with a special discussion during the video game highlighting the influence the team had on ladies's sports and the function it played in introducing the WNBA. The preliminary option of the All-Stars was conducted with a mix of ballot by fans, present WNBA gamers and a national panel of sportswriters and broadcasters from June 15 with June 27. The leading 36 vote-getters from that ballot process who are not participants of the United States Basketball 5×× 5 lineup, were provided to WNBA Head Coaches who established from that list, the 12 players that will certainly play for the Team WNBA All-Stars. Instructors were not allowed to elect gamers from their very own team. Each train was called for to submit elect five frontcourt players, 3 guards, and 4 extra gamers at any type of position. The checklist of top 36 vote-getters is readily available for ATT WNBA All-Star 2021 will certainly be determined by the respective head coaches of Team WNBA and the U. S. A. Basketball Women's National Team. As previously announced, the United States Basketball Women's National Group will certainly hold training school in Las Vegas in July. If a gamer for the United States Basketball Female's National Team is incapable to get involved in ATT WNBA All-Star 2021, U. S. A. Basketball will certainly assign a replacement. Must a participant of Group WNBA be unable to bet any type of reason, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert will name a replacement. For ticket info for ATT WNBA All-Star 2021, log on to /allstar. ATT is the Marquee Companion of the WNBA and is an inaugural WNBA are the rosters for the WNBA All Stars representing Team WNBA and the U. S. A. Basketball Female's National WNBADeWanna Bonner Connecticut Sun Frontcourt 6-4 8/21/87 Auburn 11 4Liz Cambage Las Vegas Aces Frontcourt 6-8 8/18/91 Australia 4 4Kahleah Copper ^ Chicago Sky Backcourt 6-1 8/28/94 Rutgers 5 1Dearica Hamby ^ Las Vegas Aces Frontcourt 6-3 11/6/93 Wake Woodland 6 1Brionna Jones ^ Connecticut Sun Frontcourt 6-3 12/18/95 Maryland 4 1Jonquel Jones Connecticut Sun Frontcourt 6-6 1/5/94 George Washington 4 3Betnijah Laney ^ New York Liberty Backcourt 6-0 10/29/93 Rutgers 5 1Arike Ogunbowale ^ Dallas Wings Backcourt 5-8 3/2/97 Notre Dame 2 1Candace Parker Chicago Sky Frontcourt 6-4 4/19/86 Tennessee 13 6Satou Sabally ^ Dallas Wings Frontcourt 6-4 4/25/98 Oregon/Germany 1 1Courtney Vandersloot Chicago Sky Backcourt 5-8 2/8/89 Gonzaga 10 3Courtney Williams ^ Atlanta Dream Backcourt 5-8 5/11/94 South Florida 5 1USA WOMEN'S NATIONAL TEAMAriel Atkins ^ Washington Mystics Backcourt 5-8 7/30/96 Texas 3 1Sue Bird Seattle Storm Backcourt 5-9 10/16/80 Connecticut 17 12Tina Charles Washington Mystics Frontcourt 6-4 12/5/88 Connecticut 10 8Napheesa Collier Minnesota Lynx Frontcourt 6-1 9/23/96 Connecticut 2 2Skylar Diggins-Smith Phoenix Mercury Backcourt 5-9 8/2/90 Notre Dame 7 5Sylvia Fowles Minnesota Lynx Frontcourt 6-6 10/6/85 LSU 13 7Chelsea Gray Las Vegas Aces Backcourt 5-11 10/8/92 Battle Each Other 6 4Brittney Griner Phoenix Mercury Frontcourt 6-9 10/18/90 Baylor 8 7Jewell Loyd Seattle Storm Guard 5-10 10/5/93 Notre Dame 6 3Breanna Stewart Seattle Storm Frontcourt 6-4 8/27/94 Connecticut 4 3Diana Taurasi Phoenix Mercury Backcourt 6-0 6/11/82 Connecticut 16 10A'ja Wilson Las Vegas Aces Frontcourt 6-4 8/8/96 South Carolina 3 3 ^ denotes new All-Star choice YRS signifies number of periods finished entering 2021ASG signifies variety of All-Star selections including 2021ATT WNBA All-Star 2021-- Group WNBADeWanna Bonner, Sunlight: A two-time WNBA champion and the only player in league background to win the WNBA Sixth Female of the Year honor 3 times, Bonner was named to the All-Star Video game for the 4th time. Bonner's 16. 1 ppg and 7. 4 rpg rank 2nd on the Sun this season behind only Jonquel Cambage, Aces: A two-time All-WNBA Group option and the jogger up in the 2018 WNBA MVP voting when she paced the organization in racking up, Cambage was called to the All-Star Game for the 4th time. Her 14. 8 ppg, 9. 1 rpg and 1. 8 bpg have actually aided Las Vegas to the league lead in scoring to date for the 2021 season, and the No. 2 spot in recoiling and obstructs. For gamers who have actually played as numerous career games as Cambage, her 7. 8 rpg ranks 10th in WNBA Copper, Sky: Now in her sixth WNBA season, Copper, a newbie All-Star, has actually prospered because being put into the Sky's beginning lineup in 2020. With 17 games, she is leading Chicago in racking up and Hamby, Aces: The reigning, two-time WNBA Sixth Woman of the Year, Hamby will certainly represent the Aces in her initial All-Star appearance. One of 6 Aces to typical double-figures in scoring this period, Hamby has done so while coming off the bench in all 15 ready Las Jones, Sunlight: A very first round draft pick in 2017 who burglarized the Sunlight's starting lineup a year back, this is Jones All-Star launching. In 2021, Jones is taping career-best numbers for scoring and recoiling, while playing the most mins of her five Jones, Sunlight: For Jones, the two-time organization recoiling leader, who won the league's Many Better Player honor in 2017 and Sixth Woman of the Year in 2018, this is her 3rd All-Star Video game. Jones leads the organization in recoiling and the Sun with a career-best 21. 7 ppg. She additionally is No. 2 in the WNBA in three-point shooting precision. Betnijah Laney, Liberty: The WNBA's The majority of Better Player in 2020, now in her first season with the Liberty, Laney has actually earned her initial All-Star selection. After posting career-highs of 17. 2 ppg and 4. 0 apg last season with Atlanta, Laney has boosted her outcome in 2021 to 19. 7 ppg and 5. 3 Ogunbowale, Wings: The WNBA's leading marker last period when she averaged 22. 8 ppg is amongst the league-leaders as soon as again, ranking fourth at 20. 3 ppg. Ogunbowale, who has actually racked up at the very least 20 factors in 10 of her 16 games, will be making her All-Star Parker, Sky: Having made a championship and two organization MVP honors in 13 seasons with the Stimulates, Parker will certainly now stand for the Sky as an All-Star. Parker, who made an immediate effect on the league in 2008 as the only WNBA gamer to win Novice of the Year and organization MVP honors in the exact same period, has made a prompt impact in her very first season with Chicago-- the Sky have published an 8-1 document in video games in which she has Sabally, Wings: The No. 2 total option in the 2020 WNBA Draft presented by State Ranch, Sabally is just one of two Wings chosen to make their initial All-Star look, along with Ogunbowale. Sabally is Dallas' top rebounder and No. 3 Vandersloot, Sky: The five-time WNBA aids leader, who last period came to be the first gamer in WNBA history to average double-digit aids with 10. 0 apg, is a three-time All-Star. An All-WNBA First string selection the previous two periods, Vandersloot is balancing a league-leading 8. 5 apg in 2021, two even more per game than the No. 2 rated Williams, Dream: A sixth-year gamer now in her second period with the Dream, Williams will stand for Atlanta in her All-Star launching. One year after leading the league's guards in rebounding, Williams, that has actually raised her scoring outcome each season, is balancing a career-high 17. 1 WNBA All-Star 2021-- USA Women's National TeamAriel Atkins, Mystics: Atkins, that won a WNBA champion with Washington in 2019 is one of six new Olympians on the USA ladies's roster. Making the very first All-Star appearance of her profession, she is posting career-highs in racking up and recoiling. She is the Mystics' second-leading marker behind only fellow United States Female's team member, Tina Charles. Take Legal Action Against Bird, Tornado: Now in her 18th WNBA season, Bird has actually been called to more WNBA All-Star Gamings than any type of various other player in organization history. A four-time WNBA champ and the organization's job leader in aids, Bird signs up with Diana Taurasi and Teresa Edwards as the only five-time U. S. women's basketball Olympians. Tina Charles, Mystics: The WNBA's No. 1 total choice in the 2010 draft and the 2012 organization MVP, Charles leads all players in scoring in 2021 with a career-high 25. 5 ppg. She additionally is the Mystics' leader in rebounding Sky Store. A two-time Olympic gold medal winner, Charles is a participant of the U. S. Olympic Group for the 3rd time. Napheesa Collier, Lynx: The 2019 WNBA Newbie of the Year, Collier is a newbie Olympian and newbie All-Star. She was elected to the All-WNBA Junior Varsity and the WNBA All-Defensive Secondly Team in 2020. Collier currently leads the Lynx in scoring with a career-best 17. 6 ppg and trails just Sylvia Fowles in Diggins-Smith, Mercury: A new member of the united state Olympic Team, Diggins-Smith was called to the All-Star Ready the 5th time in her job. Her 18. 9 ppg is the second-highest figure of her job behind just the 20. 1 she posted in 2014, her second year in the WNBA. Sylvia Fowles, Lynx: The WNBA's occupation leader in complete rebounds and defensive boards, and a two-time league champ, Fowles joins a brief checklist of American females basketball players who have actually competed in a minimum of four Olympics including, Tamika Catchings and Lisa Leslie, and Bird, Taurasi and Edwards. Fowles leads the league in takes and field goal portion and is linked for third in Gray, Aces: An All-Star for the 4th straight time and a first-time Olympian, Gray's career-high 6. 5 apg has Las Vegas leading the WNBA in racking up. Currently in her first campaign with the Aces, Gray spent five seasons with the Los Angeles Sparks and assisted that team to the 2016 organization Griner, Mercury: A two-time WNBA racking up leader and two-time WNBA Defensive Player of the Year, Griner is making her 2nd look on the united state Olympic lineup after assisting the group win the gold medal in 2016. Griner's career average of 2. 9 bpg and her 14 regular-season dunks place initially in organization background; her 2. 3 bpg in 2021 leads the league. Jewell Loyd, Storm: After assisting Seattle to WNBA championships in 2020 and 2018, Loyd, the 2015 WNBA Newbie of the Year, is making her 3rd All-Star appearance and is a participant of the united state Olympic Group for the very first time. Loyd's career-highs in points and aids rank 2nd on the Tornado behind only Stewart and Bird, Stewart, Storm: The ruling WNBA Finals MVP and the 2018 organization MVP, Stewart is a three-time All-Star and two-time participant of the U. S. Olympic Team. Stewart's 21. 8 ppg is 2nd in the WNBA just to Charles and her 10. 1 rpg is second behind just Jonquel Jones. Both numbers are equivalent to or surpass her previous career-high. Diana Taurasi, Mercury: The WNBA's career leader in points and three-point shots made, Taurasi's 10 All-Star Video game options are second in organization history only to Bird. She is a three-time WNBA champion, former league MVP and two-time Finals MVP. After winning an Olympic gold alongside Bird in 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016, she joins Bird and Edwards as the only five-time U. S. women's basketball Olympians. A'ja Wilson, Aces: A newbie participant of the U. S. Olympic Group, Wilson is a three-time All-Star. The 2020 organization MVP and All-WNBA First Group selection was the captain of Group Wilson in the ATT WNBA All-Star 2019, additionally played in Las Vegas. Team Wilson defeated Team Delle Donne, 129-126. Wilson's 2021 period 19. 4 ppg and 8. 7 ppg ranking seventh and 8th, specifically, in the WNBA.