Thursday, July 14, 2011

Your WNBA All Star Game Starters

In case you didn't have it on your calendars, the WNBA All Star Game is set for July 23rd in San Antonio. The starters for the game were announced tonight with the reserves to be announced on Thursday. Here's a quick look at your starting lineups.

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Tamika Catchings - Forward - Indiana Fever -Catchings led all players with 32,706 votes and is averaging 13.3 points, 7.7 rebounds and 4.2 assists for the 10-3 Fever. She is currently ranked 9th in the league in rebounding, 10th in assists and she is 2nd in the league with 31 steals.

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Katie Douglas - Guard - Indiana Fever - Douglas leads the 10-3 Fever in scoring with 16.4 points a game. She's also chipping in 4.3 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game while ranking second on the team with 18 steals. She is currently ranked 11th in the league in scoring.

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Angel McCoughtry - Forward - Atlanta Dream - McCoughtry leads the 3-9 Dream with 15.5 points a game which although good for 16th in the league, is over 5 points a game less than what she put up last year as the league's leading scorer. McCoughtry is also averaging 5.1 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game and is ranked 3rd in the league with 2.1 steals a game.

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Tina Charles - Center - Connecticut Sun - Charles leads the 6-5 Sun with 18.1 points and 10.6 rebounds per game, as well as with 16 blocked shots. She ranks 3rd in the league in scoring behind only Chicago's Sylvia Fowles and Phoenix's Diana Taurasi and is one of only two players in the league averaging double digit rebounds. She also ranks 6th in the league in blocked shots.

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Cappie Pondexter - Guard - New York Liberty - Pondexter leads the 2nd place Liberty (8-5) in scoring with 17.8 points and 5.2 assists per game. She's also chipped in 24 steals and has connected on 38% of her 3-pointers. She ranks 4th in the league in scoring, 5th in assists and 5th in steals.

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WESTERN CONFERENCE

Diana Taurasi - Guard - Phoenix Mercury - Taurasi is an all star starter for the 5th time and has helped the Mercury to the top of the Western Conference (9-4). She leads the team in scoring with 19.8 points per game and has also chipped in 3.2 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game. She ranks second in the league in scoring and 14th in assists.

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Sue Bird - Guard - Seattle Storm - Bird was the second leading vote getter with 25,077 votes. She's helped Seattle to a 7-5 record and leads the team with 5.3 assists per game while being their second leading scorer coming in at 16.1 points per game. She is 4th in the league in assists and 14th in scoring.

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Swin Cash - Forward - Seattle Storm - Cash leads the 7-5 Storm in scoring at 16.7 points per game and also averages a team high 6.5 rebounds and is second behind Bird with 3.0 assists. She ranks 7th in scoring and 14th in the league in rebounding.

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Maya Moore - Forward - Minnesota Lynx - The league's number one draft pick has the Lynx at 7-4 and in third place in the Western Conference. She is the team's second leading scorer (14.5 points per game), third leading rebounder (4.5 per game) and she's averaging 2.6 assists. She ranks 19th in the league in scoring. She's the first rookie to be voted into the starting lineup since Bird and Catchings back in 2002. She finished with 21,379 votes.

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Candace Parker - Forward - Los Angeles Sparks - Parker has been limited to just 7 games with an injury, but when she's played she leads the Sparks with 17.7 points and 9.9 rebounds per game. The is the league's 5th leading scorer and 3rd leading rebounder. The 5-6 Sparks are just 1-3 without Parker in the lineup.

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