Three Indiana Fever stars will be starters in the 2026 WNBA All-Star Game: Caitlin Clark, Aliyah Boston and Kelsey Mitchell.
They’ll be joined by the Las Vegas Aces’ A’ja Wilson, the Dallas Wings’ Paige Bueckers and Jessica Shepard, the Minnesota Lynx’s Natasha Howard and Olivia Miles, the Golden State Valkyries’ Gabby Williams and the New York Liberty’s Breanna Stewart.
Boston and Clark were the most popular among fans through the second returns of voting this year. They were each No. 1 overall picks and have been unequivocally essential to the Indiana Fever’s bloom. Boston is now a four-time All-Star, and Clark is a three-time All-Star. Boston is averaging a career-high 17 points per game. The versatile center’s stretched her game, becoming a threat from beyond the arc. She’s already netted 20 triples — three more than she combined to make her first three seasons in the league — plus, she’s shooting a personal-best 85.4% from the charity stripe.
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Clark, meanwhile, has played 17 of Indiana’s 19 games, mostly bouncing back after missing the majority of the 2025 campaign with a variety of soft-tissue injuries. Clark is tied for third in the W with 21.2 points per game. Over her past eight games, she’s shooting 48.8% from the field, making at least a trio of 3-pointers five times in that span.
This year’s WNBA All-Star Game will be played on July 25 at Chicago’s United Center.
How the 2026 WNBA All-Star Game starters were selected
Here’s how the voting breakdown shook out for the exhibition’s starters: Fans accounted for 50% of the vote, whereas players and a media panel each wound up responsible for 25%.
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Every player and media panelist was able to complete one ballot that consisted of four guards and six frontcourt players. Fans, on the other hand, could submit one ballot each day during a 17-day voting window through WNBA.com or the WNBA app. They could choose as many as four guards and up to six frontcourt players on each ballot.
There were “2-for-1 days,” on which fans’ votes counted twice. Those took place on June 12, June 17 and June 24.
Once all of the votes were accumulated, players were ranked by position (guard and frontcourt) within each of the three voting groups (fans, players and media panelists). Then a score was calculated for each player, reflecting their weighted rank from fan votes, player votes and media votes.
The four guards and six frontcourt players with the best scores were tabbed as starters for this year’s All-Star Game, with fan voting serving as a tiebreaker, if necessary.
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What about the 2026 WNBA All-Star Game reserves and head coaches?
The W’s 15 head coaches will determine the exhibition’s 12 reserves, voting for three guards, five frontcourt players and four players at either position. That said, coaches can’t vote for players on their own team.
As for the head coaches in the All-Star Game, those roles will be handed over to the coaches who are at the helm of the two teams with the best records, regardless of conference, following regular-season play on July 10. At the moment, the Minnesota Lynx’s Cheryl Reeve and the Las Vegas Aces’ Becky Hammon are in line for those gigs.
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