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WNBA announces reserves for 2025 All-Star Game

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Seattle Storm guard Skylar Diggins and the Phoenix Mercury's Alyssa Thomas are among the reserves for the 2025 WNBA All-Star Game.

The WNBA revealed the reserves on Sunday for the exhibition showcase to be played on Saturday, July 19 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

Reserves were selected by the league's 13 head coaches.

This is the seventh All-Star Game selection for Diggins, the WNBA's fifth-leading active scorer, and the sixth selection for Thomas, the league's career triple-doubles leader.

Kayla Thornton of the Golden State Valkyries, Gabby Williams of the Minnesota Lynx and Washington Mystics rookie teammates Kiki Iriafen and Sonia Citron will be appearing in their first All-Star Game.

Thornton's All-Star Game debut comes in her ninth season and Williams is in her sixth season in the WNBA.

Other reserves chosen include the Los Angeles Sparks' Kelsey Plum, the Las Vegas Aces' Jackie Young - each of whom have been selected as All-Stars for a fourth consecutive year - Minnesota's Courtney Williams, the Atlanta Dream's Rhyne Howard, the Indiana Fever's Kelsey Mitchell and the Chicago Sky's Angel Reese.

The All-Star teams will be drafted by captains Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever and Napheesa Collier of the Lynx on Tuesday.

They will first choose from a pool of eight other starters: Breanna Stewart and Sabrina Ionescu of the New York Liberty, the Aces' A'ja Wilson, Dallas Wings rookie Paige Bueckers, Storm forward Nneka Ogwumike, Allisha Gray of the Dream, the Mercury's Satou Sabally and the Fever's Aliyah Boston.