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The WNBA announced All-Star reserves Tuesday evening, and the Atlanta Dream are the most represented.Angel Reese and Dream guards Rhyne Howard and Allisha Gray are among those voted as reserves by the league’s 15 head coaches. The Dream had no players voted as All-Star starters to the dismay of Reese, who called their exclusion “disrespectful.”
This will be Reese’s third All-Star nod and the fourth for Gray and Howard.
Joining the Dream’s three leading scorers are Washington Mystics guard Sonia Citron and forward Kiki Iriafen, Los Angeles Sparks teammates Kelsey Plum and Nneka Ogwumike, Las Vegas Aces guard Jackie Young, New York Liberty forward Jonquel Jones and Minnesota Lynx guard Courtney Williams.
Toronto Tempo guard Marina Mabrey and Seattle Storm center Dominique Malonga join starters Olivia Miles and Jessica Shepard as first-time All-Stars.
The All-Star reserves were selected by the WNBA’s 15 head coaches, who were tasked with voting for three guards, five frontcourt players and four players at either position regardless of conference. Coaches were not permitted to vote for their own players.
Ogwumike will make her 11th All-Star appearance, tying three-time WNBA champion Diana Taurasi for second most in WNBA history. Four-time WNBA champion Sue Bird leads the league with 13 All-Star nods.
Plum’s omission from the All-Star starters group drew heavy scrutiny, considering she was the league’s leading scorer before being sidelined with a lower left leg injury. A day after starters — who were determined by a weighted score of fan votes (50 percent), media votes (25 percent) and player votes (25 percent) — were announced, it was revealed that player voting was incomplete, with only about 85 players in the league casting ballots. Several Sparks players did not receive ballots before the votes were tallied.
The All-Star game will be played at the United Center in Chicago on July 25.
This article originally appeared in The Athletic.
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