Indianapolis – The WNBA 2025 All -Star game has a lot to live. Last year, the WNBA All-Stars beat the American national team 117-109 in Phoenix, a confrontation that helped the Americans at their race for an eighth consecutive Olympic gold medal.
The stakes do not seem so high on Saturday (8:30 p.m. HE, ABC), but Pride is still at stake while the Caitlin Clark team meets the Napheesa Collier team. Clark, the Indiana fever goalkeeper, is one of the three players who will miss the match due to injuries, as well as Rhyne Howard from Atlanta Dream and the Sabou Sabally of Phoenix Mercury.
Clark, the main voting-detainee in fans, will help New York Liberty Sandy Brondello coach guide the team. One of Clark’s Fever’s teammates, All-Star Aliyah Boston, joked Friday that she hopes Clark will write some games for her.
“She needs to take out this clipboard. We have to see what she has. I need a rocket-3 or something,” said Boston with a smile. She added: “Caitlin does an excellent job to flock to other people regardless of her situation. For us, we will continue to do it and have fun.”
Cheryl Reeve of Minnesota trains the collar team after having managed the national team last year.
“It will be very different this time,” said dream. “A slightly loose element and has an element. … This game will be very focused on the player. It’s for fans.”
ESPN predicts how the Saturday’s match will take place. Come back closer to Tipoff for live analysis and the land cover at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.
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What team will win the star match and what score?
Philippou: Team necklace will earn 18 points. It should be noted how the collar team of preexisting chemistry A, between the Lynx Collar players, Courtney Williams and Kayla McBride, as well as the teammates of Storm Nneka Ogwumike and Skylar Diggins (in particular necklace, Williams, Diggins and Allisha Gray were also all teammates on Lunar Owls insigned). Not to mention pure talent with necklace, Breanna Stewart and Alyssa Thomas – three of the best players in the world – all in a single team.
Provide: Everything points to the collar team winning the match, including the fact that the Clark team is without two of its starters voted in Clark and Sutou Sabond. So let’s see the way that the Clark team may need to take to win: knock at 3 points, and many of them. The Kelsey Mitchell and Sabrina Ionescu fever from New York Liberty are in the 3 -point league in the league. Mitchell plays on her home field and Ionescu won the 3 -point shooting competition on Friday.
The Sonia Lemon by Washington Mystics and Brittney Sykes and Jackie Young from Las Vegas Aces could also help behind the arc. And even if there is not much defense in the star match, if the Clark team hits out, it could stretch the defense to help A’ja Wilson de Las Vegas inside.
The Clark team also has chemistry, with three mystics players (Lemon, Sykes, Kiki Iriafen), two of the ASs (Wilson and Young) and two of the fever (Mitchell and Boston).
Which player is your choice for the MVP of the All-Star game?
Philippou: Caitlin Clark is sidelined for the match, and Lexie Hull bowed early in the 3 -point competition. But Indiana Fever fans will not leave disappointed weekend. The pillar of the Kelsey Mitchell franchise will leave in front of his crowd at home to become the last goalkeeper to bring MVP back to the All-Star Game house, a special honor for the longtime fever star which has remained with the organization through many ups and downs.
Provide: The last non-child to win the honor was Wing Maya Moore. The Lynx striker won the MVP three times in a row: 2015, 2017 and 2018 (there was no stars match in 2016, an Olympic year). Candace Parker was the last so-called real post to win (2013). So maybe it’s time for a post to win again. I will go with necklace, which leads the WNBA in a score.
Andrews: Ionescu will remain hot of his 3 -point victory on Friday and will spend an evening of stars for the ages, leading it to the MVP. The 4 pointer will only help domination.
What match are you the most excited to see?
Philippou: Kelsey Plum from Team Collier is a competitor as fierce as anyone and will face two former Aces teammates in Wilson and Young. I would not be surprised if we see Wilson orchestrate a difficult defense and trap on plum when she has the ball in her hands.
Provide: Boston and Wilson – Gamecock graduates of South Carolina – in Team Clark against Stewart et Necklace – Uconn Huskies graduates – on Team Necklier. All have won national championships at the university and were the winners of the WNBA recruit. Wilson (twice) and Stewart (three times) are WNBA champions. There are several other good job players in the game, so it is not certain of the frequency that these pairs will be in the game. But that should be fun to watch if they are matching.
Andrews: The three recruits of the match clash: Lemon and Iriafen in the Clark team, and Paige Bueckers de Dallas on Team Collier. Only a few months ago, these women lit it for Notre Dame, USC and UCONN in the NCAA tournament. Then, they went n ° 1, n ° 3 and n ° 4 in the draft of the WNBA. As a little game in the game, what tower will be the shine despite their lack of experience?
