
The WNBA All-Star Game Was the Most Fun Professional Sports Has Had in a Long Time
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The WNBA All-Star Game Was the Most Fun Professional Sports Has Had in a Long Time
Caitlin Clark was one of the weekend’s All-Star team captains. Clark is dealing with a nagging right groin injury that prevented her from playing in the game. The events of Friday night led to Angel Reese playfully giving her team a new name (Team Hangover) The band of hooligans pulled out a resounding 20-point win over Team Collier. The Minnesota Lynx magnate Napheesa Collier set a new record for the event. She dropped 36 points, the most ever in an All- Star Game. The team also set a record for scoring, with 151 total points, aided by the novelty four-point shot and the traditional matador defense.
Clark was one of the weekend’s All-Star team captains, which meant she was in charge of hand selecting the members of her squad, Team Clark. Unfortunately for the basketball fans who wanted to see her take a crack at the All-Star Game’s special 28-foot four-point shots, Clark is dealing with a nagging right groin injury that prevented her from playing in the game.
But based on videos from Friday night that surfaced online, one might have wondered if members of the other team might have missed Saturday’s game for very different reasons.
Social media was plastered with clips of Team Collier—the All-Star team captained by Minnesota Lynx magnate Napheesa Collier and including Courtney Williams, Kelsey Plum, Paige Bueckers, and Angel Reese—indulging in the All-Star night life. The events of Friday night led to Reese playfully giving her team a new name (Team Hangover), and also led to Saturday morning’s shootaround getting canceled. All signs pointed to Team Collier being debilitated by some of the most vicious hangovers in human history. (If Team Clark was up late the night before, there was little evidence of it online.)
Against all odds, in a valiant, stouthearted performance, the band of hooligans pulled out a resounding 20-point win. Williams had 13 points, Plum had 16, and seasoned vets Allisha Gray and Nneka Ogwumike combined for 34. Team Collier’s 151 total points, aided by the novelty four-point shot and the traditional matador defense that defines every All-Star Game, set a new record for the event. Not only that, their fearless leader set a record as well. Collier—the rudder of a boat that could have been dangerously wobbly—dropped 36 points, the most ever in an All-Star Game.
“We set a lot of records,” Collier marveled at her postgame press conference, her All-Star Game MVP trophy shining right next to her. “Skylar [Diggins] had a triple-double, which is insane in an All-Star Game! We set the record for scoring; it’s just so fun. We had a really great time.”
Collier—who had one half of the inimitable StudBudz duo on her roster—knew her role as team mother extended beyond the basketball court.
Source: https://www.gq.com/story/wnba-all-star-game-2025