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The 2024 WNBA All-Star Game was an exhibition women's basketball game played on July 20, 2024, at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona, United States as part of the 2024 WNBA season. The Phoenix Mercury hosted the game and related events for the third time, having previously hosted the 2000 All-Star Game and 2014 All-Star Game .
The All-Star Game format is Team WNBA vs. Team USA as a lead-up to the 2024 Paris Olympics and will take place at Footprint Center in Phoenix on Saturday, July 20 (8:30 p.m. ET, ABC).
The 2024 WNBA All-Star Game will look a little different than the standard. For one, actual defense will be played when the 24 players are on the court at Footprint Center in Phoenix for Saturday ...
The 2024 WNBA season was the 28th season of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), a professional women's basketball league based in the United States.. The regular season ran from May 14 to September 19, with each of the 12 teams playing 40 games—four games each against the other five teams from the same conference, four games each against two teams from the other conference ...
Seattle and Phoenix bulking up their rosters with All-Stars puts them each over Dallas, a top-four team in 2023 that will have to go without injured forward Satou Sabally for most of the season.
The 2012 All-Star Game was not held due to the 2012 Summer Olympics. The 2016 All-Star Game was not held due to the 2016 Summer Olympics. The 2020 All-Star Game was not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sue Bird holds the records for most All-Star Game selections (13), most All-Star Games played (12), and the most selections as a starter (9).
The remaining spots in the 12-player roster will then be filled by a selection of the next 36 highest vote-getters, as chosen by the 12 WNBA head coaches who cannot vote for their own players.
The league later announced a revised 22-game schedule, but no all-star game was played. No official All-Star Game was held in 2010. Instead, there was an exhibition game matching the USA national team against a WNBA All-Star team, with Team USA winning 99–72 at Mohegan Sun Arena. [3] The Western Conference leads the overall series 10–4.