Each team will have three players from the Chicago Sky and Connecticut Sun in Team WNBA's All-Star Game in Las Vegas on July 14.The contest will see Team WNBA vs. The contest will feature Team WNBA vs. Team USA, whose players are participating in the forthcoming Olympics.Seven players from Team WNBA will make their All-Star debuts. Candace Parker (Chicago forward/center) will make her sixth All-Star appearance. Sky teammates Courtney Vandersloot and Kahleah copper, who are both point guards in the league, will be joining her.Parker said, "It means a great deal, you never take for granted that the opportunity to become an All-Star," and she will be announcing the basketball gold rounds at the Tokyo Games. She will also be representing her hometown for the first time in the course of her career.DeWanna Bonner, forward/guard, and forwards Jonquel Jones and Brionna Jones (first appearances) will represent Sun in the 12-player Team WNBA announced Wednesday.Two players from Las Vegas Aces are on Team WNBA. They are center Liz Cambage (fourth) and forward Dearicahamby (first). Two players are also on the Dallas Wings team: forward Satou Sabally and guard Arike Ogunbowale.Two other All-Stars are also part of Team WNBA: Betnijah Laney, New York's forward guard, and Courtney Williams from Atlanta.Fans (50%), WNBA player (25%) or media (25%) voted for the All-Stars. The WNBA coaches received the list of top 36 vote-getters not from Team USA. They then selected the 12 All-Stars.Team WNBA's co-head coaches will be Tina Thompson and Lisa Leslie, former WNBA players.Dawn Staley, a former WNBA player and head coach at South Carolina, was the first to name Team USA. Its members include: Sue Bird (Seattle Storm), Jewell Loyd (Seattle Storm), Brittney Griner (Phoenix Mercury), Skylar Diggins Smith, Brittney Griner, and Diana Taurasi. Chelsea Gray (Las Vegas Aces), Ariel Atkins (Washington Mystics), and Sylvia Fowles and Napheesa Collier (Minnesota Lynx).Bird will be making her 12th appearance at the All-Star Game. Taurasi will make her 10th. This is Charles' eighth appearance, Fowles and Griner's seventh, and Gray's fourth. Gray was last seen in the All-Star Game on April 5. Gray was last seen in the Game on April 4. Loyd Stewart, Wilson, and Wilson were next. Collier was the first to make it.The 2021 WNBA All-Star Game takes place at Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino. It airs at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN. Since 2000, this is the first All-Star Game that the league has hosted in an Olympic year. Although the WNBA held an exhibition at Radio City Music Hall in New York in 2004, it was not considered an All-Star Game.This report was contributed by The Associated Press.
