Rookie guard Caitlin Clark added one other accolade to her excellent first season, incomes All-WNBA honors on Wednesday.
The Indiana Fever guard turned the primary rookie to make the workforce since Candace Parker did so in 2008. She is the fifth rookie total to have that honor, becoming a member of Sue Bird, Tamika Catchings and Diana Taurasi.
Las Vegas Aces ahead A’ja Wilson and Minnesota’s Napheesa Collier have been unanimous first-team picks. Breanna Stewart of New York and Alyssa Thomas of Connecticut rounded out the five-person workforce with no place.
Wilson, the league’s unanimous selection for MVP, earned a spot on the primary workforce for the third consecutive season and fourth time total. Collier, a three-time choice to the All-WNBA workforce, was voted to the primary workforce for the second straight yr.
Clark earned 52 first-team votes and was on 66 of 67 ballots submitted by a nationwide media panel. He averaged a league-high 8.4 assists per recreation, in addition to 19.2 factors, 5.7 rebounds and 1.3 steals per recreation. He made 122 3-pointers to guide the league and helped the Fever attain the playoffs for the primary time since 2016.
New York had three of 10 gamers on the 2 groups with Sabrina Ionescu and Jonquel Jones incomes second-team honors. They have been joined by Kahleah Copper of Phoenix, Nneka Ogwumike of Seattle and Arike Ogunbowale of Dallas.
Associated Press reporting.
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