Our WNBA All-Star Game picks on 7-20 expect motivation to lie with Angel Reese and Team WNBA as they look to prove they belong with the league's vets.
Unlike most All-Star games, Saturday's duel in the desert will be highly competitive when Team USA takes on Team WNBA at the Footprint Center. Rory Breasail breaks it all down below in his latest handicap.WNBA All-Star Weekend has finally arrived, with women’s basketball aficionados flocking from around the world to Phoenix ahead of the festivities.
However, the motivations are not equal on both sides. For the Team USA players, this is still mostly a game played out of obligation to the fans and one more high-level scrimmage to rev up for the Olympics just about a week away. Team WNBA on the other hand, has all kinds of reasons to take this game seriously.in their first All-Star game want to prove they belong among the league’s veterans.
The Team USA side has more on-paper talent, but I expect the stark difference in motivations to play out much as it did in 2021, giving Team WNBA a leg up on Saturday.In recent WNBA All-Star Game history, it has been the guards who have dominated the ball and come away with MVP honors more often than not., Plum, and Ogunbowale are the last three winners, all guards with elite ball skills who bomb threes. You have to go back to 2013 to find the last forward to win the award: Candace Parker.
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