Stars align in Indianapolis: Team Clark and Team Collier headline WNBA All-Star weekend

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After breaking the WNBA record for most All-Star game votes in 2024 with 700,735 ballots, Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark just broke her own record with over 1.29 million votes in 2025. Whereas the top vote-getter in 2023, A’ja Wilson only got 95,860 votes.

Clark also led the first returns of fan voting in WNBA All-Star Voting 2025 with 515,993 votes and followed by Minnesota Lynx’s Napheesa Collier with 484,758 votes.

WNBA All-Star Voting 2025 presented by Ally started June 12 to allow fans to vote for the All-Star starters. The voting concluded on June 28. Clark and Collier earned the role of captains for being the two All-Star starters who received the most fan votes. Kia WNBA Rookie of the Year and 2024 All-WNBA First Team selection Clark received 1,293,526 votes from fans and 2024 Kia WNBA Defensive Player of the Year and Kia WNBA MVP runner-up Collier received 1,176,020. 

Both players are All-Star captains for the first time, but Clark and Collier were part of the   All-Star selection during the previous seasons.

This season, Clark is averaging 18.2 points per game and a career-high 8.9 assists per game. Collier ranks No. 1 in the WNBA in scoring with a career-high 24.5 points per game and fourth in rebounding with 8.4 rebounds per game while leading the Lynx to the league’s best record, 13-2.

Clark and Collier will draft teams from the pool of starters and reserves on Tuesday, July 8, on ESPN.

The starters pool includes Indiana Fever’s Aliyah Boston, Dallas Wings’ Paige Bueckers, Atlanta Dream’s Allisha Gray, New York Liberty’s Sabrina Ionescu, Seattle Storm’s Nneka Ogwumike, Phoenix Mercury’s Satou Sabally, New York Liberty’s Breanna Stewart, and Las Vegas Aces’ A’ja Wilson. The other 12 All-Star reserves will be announced on July 6.

AT&T WNBA All-Star 2025 heads to Indianapolis at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, home court of the Indiana Fever, on Saturday, July 19. The 2025 AT&T WNBA All-Star Game will also feature the WNBA STARRY 3-Point Contest and the Kia WNBA Skills Challenge, which will air on ESPN on Friday, July 18.