Caitlin Clark Selects Fever Teammates, Passes On Angel Reese In Wnba All-star Draft

During past year's WNBA All-Star Game, Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese were connected nan aforesaid squad, arsenic "Team WNBA" faced disconnected against Team USA up of nan Paris Olympics. 

As a squad skipper this year, playing successful her ain Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis, Clark stayed true to her Fever teammates and allowed Reese to beryllium selected by chap skipper Napheesa Collier successful nan WNBA All-Star Game draught connected Tuesday night. 

Clark and Collier, nan Minnesota Lynx seasoned star, received skipper honors owed to nan instrumentality vote, which they vanished number 1 and two, respectively. 

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Team WNBA defender Caitlin Clark, #22, dribbles alongside Team WNBA guardant Angel Reese, #5, against USA Women's National Team during nan WNBA All Star Game astatine Footprint Center. (Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports)

In turn, they did a unrecorded draught connected ESPN Tuesday night, erstwhile Clark started by taking her Fever counterpart, Aliyah Boston, pinch nan first wide prime (at this point, only nan starters were being taken earlier reserves). Collier took New York Liberty prima Breanna Stewart next, making judge to constituent retired their relationship pinch nan Unrivaled 3-on-3 convention they began this past offseason. 

Clark would enactment successful New York, taking prima defender Sabrina Ionescu, while besides nabbing nan three-time convention MVP A’ja Wilson from nan Las Vegas Aces and Phoenix Mercury guardant Satou Sabally. 

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Collier was capable to scoop Dallas Wings rookie phenom Paige Bueckers, nan No. 1 wide prime of this year’s WNBA Draft, aft Clark said she wasn’t going to return her pinch her last starters prime owed to already having 2 guards successful her five, including herself. Collier’s squad was rounded retired pinch Atlanta Dream defender Alisha Gray and Seattle Storm guardant Nneka Ogwumike. 

When it came clip for nan reserves, Collier chose first and went pinch a chap Lynx player, Courtney Williams. Clark followed suit, nabbing move defender Kelsey Mitchell, who useful adjacent to her successful nan Fever’s starting five. 

After taking Skyler Diggins, Collier drafted Reese, who she called "Mebounds." It was an affectionate moniker and a motion to Reese’s caller merchandise line, which was released past month. 

Team WNBA guardant Angel Reese, #5, passes nan shot to Team WNBA defender Caitlin Clark, #22, during nan first half against nan USA Women's National Team astatine Footprint Center. (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports)

Reese trademarked "Mebound," which was initially utilized to mock her for grabbing her ain missed shots and continuing to hustle to put them backmost up for 2 points. Reese, instead, utilized nan word to make it positive, announcing portion of nan proceeds will spell to nan Angel C. Reese Foundation to "help conflict against cyberbullying."

With Reese joining Collier’s squad connected nan bench, Clark took Washington Mystics rookies Sonia Citron and Kiki Iriafen. Collier past grabbed Kelsey Plum from nan Los Angeles Sparks and Rhyne Howard from nan Atlanta Dream. 

Mercury guardant Alyssa Thomas besides joined Collier, while Aces defender Jackie Young and forwards Kayla Thornton from nan Golden State Valkyries and Gabby Williams from nan Storm besides subordinate Clark’s squad. 

Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark, #22, looks connected against nan Minnesota Lynx successful nan 2nd half during nan Commissioner's Cup last astatine Target Center. (Jesse Johnson-Imagn Images)

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With nan teams set, location was nan anticipation of trading players, but Clark didn’t do so. Instead, she revealed that she and Collier agreed to waste and acquisition coaches if it were possible, arsenic Lynx caput coach, Cheryl Reeve, was group to coach Clark’s squad. 

The WNBA gave ESPN big Malika Andrews nan thumbs up to nan trade, and that group up nan All-Star Game for July 19 successful Indianapolis. There will besides beryllium a skills title and three-point title connected July 18 to footwear disconnected nan All-Star festivities. 

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