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Alexa Philippou
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M.A. Voepel
ESPN.com
- M.A. Voepel covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball, and other college sports for espnW. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996.
For the second year in a row, A’ja Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces and Breanna Stewart of the New York Liberty were the leading vote-getters for the WNBA All-Star Game and will be the captains. They’ll pick their squads on Saturday’s All-Star Team Selection Special (1 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN App).
We took shots at picking the teams before the contest, which will be played in Las Vegas on July 15 (8:30 p.m. ET, ABC/ESPN App). We didn’t try to put ourselves too much inside the minds of Wilson and Stewart. It was more a case of, “If we could pick the teams for them, here’s what we would do.”
We flipped a coin — specifically a 1981 quarter Voepel found on the counter in the first sighting of loose change — to decide who got to pick first, and therefore would be Team…
