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Two Pro Ducks earn WNBA All-Star starting spots, Caitlyn Clark a captain

ByDale Bliss|
Despite struggling with her shot in recent games as she battles a nagging injury, Sabrina Ionescu made the WNBA All-Star squad for the fourth season in a row.
Despite struggling with her shot in recent games as she battles a nagging injury, Sabrina Ionescu made the WNBA All-Star squad for the fourth season in a row. | Jordan Godfree-Imagn Images

Monday the WNBA announced the starters for the league's all-star game after the conclusion of fan voting. Top vote-getters Caitlyn Clark and Napheesa Collier of the Minnesota Lynx will choose their teams from the starters' pool announced yesterday.

Clark broke her own all-star game record for the most votes received, totalling 1,293,526. The Indiana Fever guard missed seven games with an injury but she's averaging 18.2 points a game, five rebounds and 8.9 assists in her second season with the team.

Lynx star Collier, a 6-1 forward from UConn, leads the WNBA in scoring at 24.4 points per game, third in rebounds, hauling down 8.5 per contest. She also dishes out 3.7 assists a game, fifth in the league in steals at 1.8.

Two Ducks earned starting nods, although they won't know their team assignments until Clark and Collier choose up sides at the "WNBA Countdown" on July 8.

Phoenix Mercury forward Satou Sabally won an all-star nod for the third time in her career since joining the league in 2020. The 6-4 former Duck star ranks sixth in the WNBA in scoring at 19.1 points a game, seventh in rebounds with 8.0 per game.

As a Duck Sabally starred on the 2018-19 team that made the NCAA Final Four and earned Consensus All-American honors the following year, the season Kelly Graves Lady Webfoots compiled a 31-2 record only to see the tournament canceled by Covid-19 concerns.

Sabally entered the draft after her junior year, chosen No. 6 overall in the first round by the Dallas Wings.

Though she's struggled a bit recently, mired in a shooting slump as she plays through a bothersome neck strain, Sabrina Ionescu remains one of the icons of basketball, the Ducks' all-time leader in scoring and a two-time winner of the John Wooden Award.

The No. 1 draft pick in 2020, Ionescu earned her starting nod by averaging 18.3 points a game with four assists. In 2024 she and forward Breanna Stewart led the Liberty to the franchise's first-ever WNBA title.

The All-Star Game tips off on July 19 from the Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, 5:30 p.m. PT on ABC.

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