The 2025 WNBA All-Star Game starters have been confirmed with Caitlin Clark leading the way, though there is one notable omission: Angel Reese.

Clark, despite missing time this season with various injuries, was the leading vote-getter for the exhibition game set to take place in Indianapolis. The Indiana fever star will also be tasked with selecting her team for the game.

That said, despite how the Chicago Sky star played this season and in recent games, she was not chosen to be an All-Star starter. It came asClark issued two stern words of advice to Reese after being named All-Star captain.

The 10 players chosen as starters were Clark, Paige Bueckers, Sabrina Ionescu, Allisha Gray, Napheesa Collier, A’ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart, Aliyah Boston, Nneka Ogwumike, and Satou Sabally. Collier is the other captain by virtue of garnering the second-most votes with a total of 1,176,020, while Clark led the way with 1,293,526 votes.

As for the breakdown of how each player was selected as a starter, fans accounted for 50 percent of the vote while votes from current WNBA players and the media accounted for 25 percent each. The players were then ranked by position and each player’s score was calculated by averaging the weighted rank from the three total pools

The four guards and six frontcourt players with the best score were then named as starters. Interestingly, Clark was ranked ninth in the player rank, with Gray ranked the No. 1 player.

Despite being snubbed as an All-Star, Reese continued to show what type of player she was. Before the Sky’s 92-85 win over the Sparks on Sunday, Los Angeles head coach Lynne Roberts heaped praise on the type of player Reese was and the amount of trouble she causes for opposing teams.

“Angel Reese is unbelievable on the rebounds, and you can talk about it and you can watch it and you can drill it,” Roberts told reporters before the game. “There’s no way to duplicate it to prepare. She’s just elite, and, you know, her motor is so high, and I have a lot of respect for her as a competitor.”

She added, “You know, that’s just desire. She knows how to do it, and she’s super physical, and so what’s the game plan? Try not to let her get as many [rebounds] as she did last time. You have to meet her early. You have to make the first hit. I think that’s the big thing.

“You know, you can’t just turn and feel like, ‘Oh, I have position, so therefore I can get it,’ because she’ll beat you to it.”

And against the Sparks, Reese did just that, showcasing her elite motor en route to a historic performance against Los Angeles. After the win, the 23-year-old star said her success is based on the work she’s put in, and fans are just seeing the culmination of that work.

“Yeah, I’m just trusting my work. I mean, I put my head down every day and just grind. And that’s all I do. I don’t do it for cameras. I don’t do it for publicity,” Reese said postgame. “I don’t post me in the gym. And I’m not going to. Like I put my head down every day at work. I’m very versatile in what I do on and off the court. And I prioritize when I’m at work.

“When I’m at work, it’s time for work. And I come here every day and try to do everything for my teammates and whatever comes up about it … And just continue to be something that I know that I can just be better every day. And just continue to be great.”