INDIANAPOLIS - Caitlin Clark and Paige Bueckers will always be intertwined.The future WNBA All-Star guards battled on the AAU circuit and came through the USA Basketball pipeline together, leading the Stars and Stripes to gold medals at the 2017 FIBA U16 AmeriCup and 2019 FIBA U19 World Cup.

Diana Taurasi, Brittney Griner and other Phoenix Mercury players played a role in Team USA's success over the years.

Angel Reese was named the cover athlete for the NBA 2K26 WNBA Edition. To make the feat more special, Reese debuted her signature shoe on the cover.

Tabitha Pool of Ann Arbor Huron and Micaela Kelly of Martin Luther King High School had great careers in high school and in college and were both drafted in the WNBA, but were waived from their teams and did not log official minutes during their time, according to basketball reference.

Citron, who was named an All-Star for the very first time, was the No. 3 overall pick in the 2025 WNBA Draft. She has played in all 18 games for the Mystics. Among current rookies, the 6-foot-1 guard ranks second in scoring (14.6 ppg), third in rebounding (4.9 rpg) and fifth in assists (2.0 apg).

The Oregon Ducks are set to have multiple former players in the WNBA All-Star Game for the second time in the past four seasons. New York Liberty guard Sabrina

Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark, as one of the captains for the WNBA All-Star games, recently started drafting players for her All-Star team. One of them was Washington Mystics rookie guard, Sonia Citron,