The 2025 WNBA season ended with A’ja Wilson atop the world of women’s basketball as she was the league MVP, the Defensive Player of the Year, won a title with the Las Vegas Aces, and was named WNBA Finals MVP. A few months later, much hasn’t changed, as Wilson is still atop the WNBA, this time courtesy of WNBA All-Star Game voting.
Wilson, a four-time WNBA MVP and two-time Finals MVP, has never won the Most Valuable Player award at the All-Star Game but is putting herself in position to at least compete for one this season. She has 308,249 fan votes thus far to lead all players. In second place is second-year player Paige Bueckers of the Dallas Wings, who was the WNBA Rookie of the Year last season. Bueckers is roughly 10,000 votes behind Wilson with 298,027 fan votes.
Rounding out the top five are other names very familiar to both diehard and casual women’s basketball fans. Aliyah Boston of the Indiana Fever is third at 282,186, with Breanna Stewart of the New York Liberty fourth at 255,879. The Fever are the only team with two players in the top five, as fifth is Boston’s teammate Caitlyn Clark (253,602).
Fans account for half of the vote, with 25 percent then coming from current players, and another 25 percent coming from the media. Fan voting ends on Sunday, and each player is classified as either a guard or frontcourt player.
To determine the 10 starting All-Stars, players are ranked by those two positions within the groups of fan, player, and media votes. Each player’s score will then be calculated by averaging their weighted rank from those groups.
Four guards and six frontcourt players will then start in the game. To fill out the rest of the All-Star Game rosters, head coaches will pick the reserves.
Wilson is certainly deserving of topping the fan vote thus far, as she’s having another stellar season. Entering play on Wednesday, she’s averaging 25.6 points, 9 rebounds, 3.1 assists, 2.2 blocks, and 1.1 steals. Her scoring average is the second-highest of her nine-year career and leads the league this season, as do her blocks per game. She also added a new offensive skill to her repertoire in the 3-point shot.
Wilson is shooting a staggering 51.5 percent from beyond the arc, which ranks third in the WNBA. She’s on pace to make 48 3-pointers this season, which would be more than the past two seasons combined. Wilson making the All-Star Game this season would be her eighth across her nine seasons, meaning she would have made it in every available season, as no All-Star Game was held in 2020.
As for Bueckers, it’s not outside the realm of possibility for her to overtake Wilson in terms of fan voting. She’s powered the Dallas Stars, who won all of 10 games last year, to nine wins already this season, with 30 games to go. The WNBA sophomore is putting up 19 points, 5.8 assists, and 3.7 rebounds, while shooting over 50 percent from the field and 40 percent from the arc.
The rest of the top 10 in current fan votes are No. 6 Jessica Shepard (211,598) of the Dallas Wings, No. 7 Angel Reese (204,643) of the Atlanta Dream, No. 8 Gabby Williams (195,641) of the Golden State Valkyries, No. 9 Olivia Miles (179,283) of the Minnesota Lynx, and No. 10 Kelsey Mitchell (170,125) of the Indiana Fever.
Miles is the only rookie among the top 10, as she was the second overall pick in the 2026 WNBA Draft. The top pick, Azzi Fudd of the Dallas Wings, is 11th in fan voting. A total of 14 players have received at least 100,000 votes, though there is expected to be a heavy surge in voting between now and when voting closes on Sunday.
Last year, three players ended up receiving more than 1,000,000 fan votes, topped by Clark at 1,293,526.
The 2026 WNBA All-Star Game will take place on Saturday, July 25, at the United Center in Chicago. It will be the second time that the Windy City hosts the event, as the 2022 game also took place there, though that contest was at Wintrust Arena, which is home to the Chicago Sky and seats roughly 10,000. The United Center is home to the Chicago Bulls and has a capacity of more than 23,000.
The date and location of the 2027 WNBA All-Star Game have not yet been released, but other news that the league announced on Wednesday could impact when it will be played.
