WNBA All-Star rosters are a lock, as honorary GMs Cynthia Cooper and Teresa Weatherspoon drafted their squads ahead of the July 25th showdown in Chicago.
The league ditched the player-captain and conference-vs-conference formats of years past, with top fan vote-getters Paige Bueckers (Team Coop) and Caitlin Clark (Team Spoon) divvied up via a coin toss before the WNBA legends filled out the rest.
Cooper tapped starters Breanna Stewart (New York), Kelsey Mitchell (Indiana), Natasha Howard (Minnesota), and Gabby Williams (Golden State), while Weatherspoon paired Clark with A’ja Wilson (Las Vegas), Olivia Miles (Minnesota), Aliyah Boston (Indiana), and Jessica Shepard (Dallas).
In honor of its 30th anniversary, the league is upping the stakes by putting a little extra cash on the line.
Teams will play for an $100,000 prize pool benefitting Chicago-based nonprofits, with the winning team earning $70,000 towards its chosen organization while $30,000 goes to the runner-up’s cause.
Las Vegas’s Becky Hammon (Team Coop) and Minnesota’s Cheryl Reeve (Team Spoon) will lead the squads, after each coach finished the first half of 2026 at the top of the WNBA standings.
