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Napheesa Collier’s team dominated by the Caitlin Clark team from beginning to end and won a 151-131 victory in the WNBA All-Star arrived on Saturday night behind a record night of the Minnesota Lynx star.
Collier finished with 36 points in the game. She broke the score record established by Dallas Wings Arike Ogunbowale star in the 2024 game.
Collier is five times there and averages 23.2 points and 7.6 rebounds per game, since he has helped the Lynx to return to the top of the WNBA classification in the break with a 20-4 record.
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Naphesa Collier (24) of Minnesota Lynx celebrates on a Saturday, July 19, 2025 of 4 points in the WNBA stars game in Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (Grace Smith / Indiestar / USA Today Network through IMAGN images)
It was named MVP of the WNBA stars game.
Seattle Storm star, Skylar Diggins, from Team Collier, established a record for most assists in a star game and became the first player to register a triple double in the event. She had 11 points, 11 rebounds and 15 assists
Indiana Fever’s star, Kelsey Mitchell, led the Clark team with 20 points.
However, the game talk was about the message of the players about a salary increase in the middle of the tense negotiations of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) during the break.
Each star of the WNBA wore a shirt that said: “Páganos what you owe us”, during the warm -up before the game. Fans were heard “pay them”, during the presentation of the prize.
July 19, 2025; Indianapolis, in, USA; The Collier Napheesa Collier team striker (24) observes before the 2025 WNBA stars game in Gainbridge Fieldhouse. (Images of Trevor Ruszkowski-Imagn)
“The crowd says it for us,” Collier said when he was asked to share his message.
The president of WNBPA, Nneka Ogwumike, praised the players to use their platform.
The WNBA stars send a message to the league before the All-Star game in the midst of the contentious CBA negotiations
“I am so inspired by the number of players that appeared, the commitment that was there,” he said. “That’s what really is about. Because the more we happen, the more we can do things. I think we can use this conversation today to start shooting the ball about things.”
A’JA Wilson of Las Vegas Aces, on the right, talks to Kayla Thornton by Golden State Valkyries during the first half of a WNBA All-Star basketball game against Team Collier, on Saturday, July 19, 2025, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Despite the contest, the WNBA commissioner, Cathy Engelbert, said on Saturday night it was optimistic that an agreement would be made.
“I am still really optimistic that we will do something that is transformative,” he said. “And that, next year at All-Star, we will be talking about how good everything is. Obviously there is a lot of hard work to do on both sides to get there.”
The players met with the League officials on Thursday, and the parties did not reach an agreement. The Chicago Sky star, Angel Reese, was one of the many WNBA players who have expressed criticism of the management of the League negotiations.
“It was a revelation for me. As, listening to things and listening to the language of things and not the things I was happy to listen. The things they sent us was disrespectful, the proposal they sent us,” he said on Friday.
“It is important to be a vocal. If I feel, it seems that I don’t care.”
Aliyah Boston (7) of Indiana Fover is heated on Saturday, July 19, 2025, before the WNBA stars game in Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (Grace Smith / Indiestar / USA Today Network through IMAGN images)
The New York Liberty star, Sabrina Ionescu, said the players would not settle for “the minimum” in the negotiations, while the PHOENIX player Mercury Satou Sabally described the last CBA of the League, offers a “slap.”
