The WNBA All-Star game less than one month away, and fan voting for the 10 starters is open through June 20.

Just Women’s Sports has one deserving candidate from each team to keep an eye on during the voting process. Fans can vote online once per day.

Atlanta Dream – Rhyne Howard

As a rookie, Rhyne Howard leads the Dream with 16.2 points per game. She’s also adding 3.9 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game.

Connecticut Sun – Alyssa Thomas

While Jonquel Jones is putting up big numbers, Alyssa Thomas has been an all-around threat for the Sun. She’s averaging 14.9 points per game and a team-leading 8.8 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 1.8 steals per game.

Chicago Sky – Candace Parker

This one may be an obvious choice. On top of putting up her second triple-double of her career this season, Candace Parker currently leads the Sky with 12.3 points and 8.7 rebounds per game.

Dallas Wings – Satou Sabally

Satou Sabally has been a steady presence for the Wings, scoring 11.8 points and 6.2 rebounds per game. She’s second on the team in rebounds behind Kayla Thornton, who has 7.8.

Indiana Fever – Queen Egbo

While Queen Egbo isn’t the biggest scorer on the Fever, she is making her impact felt in other ways. She leads the team in rebounds (7.3), steals (1.2) and blocks (1.5). She also has one of the lowest assist to turnover ratios on the team at 0.6.

Las Vegas Aces – Kelsey Plum

Kelsey Plum has been making the most of her starting spot in the lineup and proving she’s no longer the Sixth Woman of the Year for the Aces. Plum is averaging 19.8 points per game, which is good for second in the league behind Seattle’s Breanna Stewart (who has played just eight games to Plum’s 12).

Los Angeles Sparks – Nneka Ogwumike

A top 10 scorer in the league, Nneka Ogwumike leads the Sparks with 18.1 points and 7.5 rebounds per game. She’s also been adding 1.5 steals per game.

Minnesota Lynx – Sylvia Fowles

Sylvia Fowles is one of the few players this season averaging a double-double on the season, with 17.1 points and 10.6 rebounds per game. She also leads the Lynx in steals (1.5) and blocks (1.3).

New York Liberty – Natasha Howard

Natasha Howard ranks first on the Liberty in rebounds (6.5), steals (1.6) and blocks (1.1) She’s also putting up 14.4 points per game.

Phoenix Mercury – Skylar Diggins-Smith

While there is no shortage of talent on the Mercury, Skylar Diggins-Smith is the team’s leader in points (18.4) and assists (4.6). She’s also adding 1.6 steals per night, which is tied for the team lead.

Seattle Storm – Breanna Stewart

While the Storm could no doubt have more than one All-Star, Breanna Stewart should be at the top of the list. Not only does she lead the team, she also leads the league in points with 20.4 per game. She’s also adding a team-high 7.0 rebounds and 2.9 steals per game.

Washington Mystics – Elena Delle Donne

Elena Delle Donne has been making a splash in her first full season back in the league, averaging 17.5 points per game through eight games played. She’s also adding 6.8 rebounds and 1.3 blocks.

Sweden veteran defender Magda Eriksson is hanging up her international boots to focus on her health, with the 32-year-old officially announcing her retirement from her national team on Sunday.

Eriksson will continue competing at the domestic level for her German club, Bayern Munich.

The longtime captain sat out the most recent international window due to a head injury, watching as world No. 3 Sweden fell to No. 1 Spain in the two-leg 2025 Nations League semifinals.

"It's by far the toughest decision I've ever made," Eriksson said in her social media announcement. "But I'm listening to my body and mind instead of my heart."

"I've landed in the fact that unfortunately it's a decision that has to be made."

After an 11-year career with the Swedish senior national team, Eriksson retires as a two-time Olympic silver medalist, earning those podium finishes in Rio in 2016 and at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Games.

Often leading Sweden through major tournaments where early domination dissolved into a third-place finish, Eriksson also helped her team eke onto the World Cup podium in both 2019 and 2023.

"It is heavy news," said Sweden head coach Tony Gustavsson after Eriksson announced her international retirement, calling her "one of our most important players for a long time."

"[Magda's] professionalism, courage, and heart have left a strong mark on the national team," he added.

Chelsea FC's £1 million gamble is paying dividends, as USWNT rising star Alyssa Thompson continued her goal-scoring momentum for the six-time defending WSL champs on Sunday.

The young forward found the back of the net in the ninth minute of the Blues' 1-1 Sunday draw with Liverpool, solidifying her status as a decisive attacking threat for her new club.

"You can see how much talent she has and the quality she brings to the team," Chelsea manager Sonia Bompastor said of Thompson earlier this month. "She's improving game after game, becoming more connected to her teammates, and understanding the way we want to play better."

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Thompson left NWSL side Angel City for Chelsea on a then-record £1 million transfer fee in early September, with the 21-year-old going on to notch three goals and one assist in four matches across both WSL and Champions League play.

"Being able to play with players that are the best in the world is an amazing opportunity," said the striker. "I want to learn, grow, and develop a lot. I feel like Chelsea is such an amazing environment to do that in."

Beyond individual accomplishment, Thompson's success underscores Chelsea's depth as they continue to hunt domestic and continental honors on a now-34 match WSL unbeaten streak — while also looking to potentially draw more USWNT stars away from the NWSL.

Women's professional baseball has landed a home base, with Front Office Sports reporting on Monday that the newly formed WPBL will play the entirety of its 2026 debut season at Robin Roberts Stadium in Springfield, Illinois.

The incoming league prioritized a neutral venue without an existing baseball team to house its four inaugural clubs — New York, Boston, LA, and San Francisco — for its first campaign, with barnstorming games also planned for each team market.

"Our sport is for everybody," WPBL co-founder Keith Stein told FOS. "It's for middle America, everybody. We thought, 'Our teams are on these two coasts, it would be good to be in the middle of the country.'"

Founded in 2024 as the first professional women's baseball outfit in the US since 1954, the WPBL will hold its first-ever draft on Thursday, with the league's four teams drawing from a pool of 120 eligible players.

The WPBL recently fielded an oversubscribed Series A investment round, telling FOS that they're closing a $3 million raise with another round planned ahead of its August 2026 season-opener.

Each 30-player team will operate under a $95,000 salary cap for the first year, with the league also covering living costs throughout the seven-week season as well as giving players a percentage of sponsorship funds.

How to watch the first-ever WPBL Draft

The 2025 WPBL Draft kicks off at 8 PM ET on Thursday, with live coverage streaming across the league's Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube channels.

Las Vegas Aces boss Becky Hammon spoke her mind last week, telling CNBC Sport that the WNBA might need "a change in leadership" for the league's CBA talks to successfully progress.

"I just think [player relations] might be too fractured at this point, but we'll see," Hammon said, while also noting that she's had only limited interactions with WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert.

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Citing Engelbert's "private conversations...with individual players — or lack of the conversations," Hammon described the commissioner's current relationship with players as "rocky" while describing her widely criticized leadership style.

"I don't know if she can ever regret, retract, and get that traction back from those conversations," the Aces boss posited.

"When the players speak, people need to sit up and listen," she continued. "I think [Engelbert is] sitting up and listening now."

Hammon also voiced support for Minnesota Lynx star Napheesa Collier after the five-time All-Star described the WNBA as having the "worst leadership in the world" in her now-viral 2025 exit interview.

"I completely agree with Napheesa that the players should be making more than coaches," the Las Vegas sideline leader — who publicly earns seven figures per year — continued. "They're due for a huge increase in salary, and it's got to be something that is sustainable. That's the biggest thing you got to remember, that this league is still a young league."

Ultimately, while the 2025 WNBA season is over, CBA concerns loom large over the league's current offseason and 2026 campaign, leaving Hammon and others looking to avoid a lockout as the November 30th extension deadline nears.