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ESPN and ABC Presents WNBA All-Star 2024, Juky 19-20​

ESPN and ABC will provide multi-day, multi-platform coverage of the 2024 AT&T WNBA All-Star hosted by the three-time WNBA Champion Phoenix Mercury. On Friday, July 19, ESPN will televise the Kia WNBA Skills Challenge and the WNBA STARRY® 3-Point Contest at 9 p.m. ET. On Saturday, July 20, the 2024 AT&T WNBA All-Star Game will be broadcast live on ABC in primetime for the second consecutive year. Live coverage from Footprint Center tips off at 8:30 p.m. with a special onsite edition of WNBA Countdown Presented by Google preceding Saturday’s broadcast at 8 p.m. (ABC).

 

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ESPN and ABC Presents WNBA All-Star 2024, Juky 19-20​

The 2024 AT&T WNBA All-Star Game will showcase the league’s top talent squaring off against one another as the USA Basketball Women’s National Team takes on the WNBA All-Stars who were selected as part of a combination of fan, player, media and coach voting. The top ten vote-getters included Aliyah Boston (Indiana Fever), Caitlin Clark (Indiana Fever), Napheesa Collier (Minnesota Lynx), Kahleah Copper (Phoenix Mercury), Dearica Hamby (Los Angeles Sparks), Sabrina Ionescu (New York Liberty), Arike Ogunbowale (Dallas Wings), Breanna Stewart (New York Liberty), A’ja Wilson (Las Vegas Aces), and Jackie Young (Las Vegas Aces). Boston, Clark, Hamby, and Ogunbowale, who are not on the USA Women’s National Team 5-on-5 roster, were automatically assigned to Team WNBA.

 

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Cheryl Miller, Cheryl Reeves to coach WNBA All-Star Game
Basketball icon Miller, the first head coach of the Mercury, will be joined on the sideline by former Phoenix star Adrian Williams. - Reeve's national team staff is rounded out by Duke coach Kara Lawson, Texas A&M coach Joni Taylor and Washington Mystics GM Mike Thibault.
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The 2024 WNBA All-Star Game will tip Saturday at 8:30 p.m. ET on ABC.

 

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Griner, Jones among participants in WNBA All-Star Friday
Phoenix's Brittney Griner and New York's Jonquel Jones are among the biggest names who will participate in the WNBA's special competitions Friday during the league's All-Star weekend.
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The Skills Challenge will include Griner, teammate Sophie Cunningham, Atlanta's Allisha Gray, Connecticut's Marina Mabrey and Indiana's Erica Wheeler. The 3-point Contest includes Jones, Gray, Mabrey, Washington's Stefanie Dolson and Minnesota's Kayla McBride. Griner is the only member of the U.S. Olympic team who will participate in either competition.

 

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Mercury unveils new practice facility as part of All- Star festivities
The facility, which the Mercury said cost $100 million and is three blocks from the team's arena, will including strength and cardio areas, hydrotherapy, a sauna, offices, meeting rooms, lounge and dining room, among other amenities. It will also have a full kitchen with a dedicated chef.
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The U.S. Olympic team was the first team to train at the new facility. The Mercury became the third WNBA team in the past few years to debut a new practice facility as Phoenix joined Seattle and Las Vegas.