Key Points
- Aliyah Boston, Caitlin Clark, and Kelsey Mitchell will start for Indiana — a first for the trio.
- The 10 starters also include A'ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart, and Paige Bueckers.
- Rookie Olivia Miles of the Minnesota Lynx is the only first-year starter.
- The All-Star Game is set for July 25 at Chicago's United Center.
The WNBA announced its 2026 All-Star starters, and three of them wear Indiana Fever colors: center Aliyah Boston and guards Caitlin Clark and Kelsey Mitchell. It is the first time all three have been named starters in the same year.
They headline a 10-player starting group that also includes four-time MVP A'ja Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces, two-time MVP Breanna Stewart of the New York Liberty, Paige Bueckers and Jessica Shepard of the Dallas Wings, Natasha Howard and Olivia Miles of the Minnesota Lynx, and Gabby Williams of the Golden State Valkyries. Miles, the Lynx rookie guard, is the only rookie of the 10. No Atlanta Dream player made the cut.
Clark's selection is the headline even though she ranked only fifth in the first round of All-Star fan voting. Starters are set by a weighted blend of fan, player, and media votes, and the Fever turning out three of them says as much about Indiana's national pull as any single stat line.
Three Fever starters is the clearest sign yet that Indiana has become the WNBA's center of gravity. The league is leaning into the demand the Clark era created — staging the All-Star Game at Chicago's United Center, an NBA arena, and building the weekend around a franchise that now puts a third of the starting lineup on the floor. It caps a season in which the Fever put all 44 of their regular-season games on national television, a league record, and turned Clark's supporting cast into stars in their own right. It also lands in a season where the business around these players keeps scaling, from Clark's Nike signature line to a record signature-shoe field. The game tips July 25.
Team Spoon, with Clark and Boston, beat Team Coop 129-122 at the United Center on July 25, and Jonquel Jones took MVP honors with 22 points, 13 rebounds and eight assists.
Source: ESPN, CBS Sports
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