WNBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award

Women's National Basketball Association awards and honors
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Commissioner's Cup Champions
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The Women's National Basketball Association All-Star Game Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) award given to the player voted best of the annual All-Star Game. The all-star game began during the 1999 WNBA season, the third year of the WNBA. There was no game held in 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, or 2016.

Lisa Leslie and Maya Moore have won the most awards, with 3 selections each.

Winners

Denotes player who is still active in the WNBA
Denotes player whose team won the championship that year
° Inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
* Denotes player named as the regular season MVP that year
† Denotes player selected as All-Star during rookie season
Player (x) Denotes the number of times the player has won
Team (x) Denotes the number of times a player from team/franchise has won
Year Player Position Nationality Team Ref.
1999 Lisa Leslie ° Center  United States Los Angeles Sparks [1]
2000 Tina Thompson ° Forward Houston Comets [2]
2001 Lisa Leslie ° * (2) Center Los Angeles Sparks (2) [3]
2002 Lisa Leslie ° (3) Los Angeles Sparks (3) [4]
2003 Nikki Teasley Guard Los Angeles Sparks (4) [5]
2004 The Game at Radio City
2005 Sheryl Swoopes ° * Guard / Forward  United States Houston Comets (2) [6]
2006 Katie Douglas Connecticut Sun [7]
2007 Cheryl Ford Forward Detroit Shock [8]
2008 No game held due to the 2008 Summer Olympics[9]
2009 Swin Cash ° Forward  United States Seattle Storm [10]
2010 Stars at the Sun
2011 Swin Cash ° (2) Forward  United States Seattle Storm (2) [11]
2012 No game held due to the 2012 Summer Olympics[9]
2013 Candace Parker * Center  United States Los Angeles Sparks (5) [12]
2014 Shoni Schimmel † Guard Atlanta Dream [13]
2015 Maya Moore ° Forward Minnesota Lynx [14]
2016 No game held due to the 2016 Summer Olympics[9]
2017 Maya Moore ° (2) Forward  United States Minnesota Lynx (2) [15]
2018 Maya Moore ° (3) Minnesota Lynx (3) [16]
2019 Erica Wheeler Guard Indiana Fever [17]
2020 No game held due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Arike Ogunbowale Guard  United States Dallas Wings (2) [18]
2022 Kelsey Plum Las Vegas Aces [19]
2023 Jewell Loyd Seattle Storm (3) [20]
2024 Arike Ogunbowale (2) Dallas Wings (3) [21]

Notes

See also

References

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  2. ^ "West Shines In WNBA All-Star". CBS News. Associated Press. July 18, 2000. Retrieved July 22, 2024.
  3. ^ "Leslie Fuels West All-Stars". Los Angeles Times. July 17, 2001. Retrieved July 22, 2024.
  4. ^ Jenkins, Sally (July 15, 2002). "WNBA Is Getting Better All the Time". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 22, 2024.
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  11. ^ Allard, Marc (July 23, 2011). "Storm forward Swin Cash wins her 2nd WNBA All-Star Game MVP award". The Seattle Times. Associated Press. Retrieved July 22, 2024.
  12. ^ "Candace Parker scores record 23 in West's All-Star win". USA Today. Associated Press. July 27, 2013. Retrieved July 22, 2024.
  13. ^ Killian, Tyler (July 19, 2014). "Shoni Schimmel scores WNBA All-Star record 29 to lift East by West in OT". USA Today. Retrieved July 22, 2024.
  14. ^ "Maya Moore scores 30 to lead West to WNBA All-Star Game victory". The Arizona Republic. July 25, 2015. Retrieved July 22, 2024.
  15. ^ Booth, Tim (July 22, 2017). "Lynx's Maya Moore grabs MVP in WNBA All-Star Game victory". Pioneer Press. The Associated Press. Retrieved July 22, 2024.
  16. ^ "Led by Maya Moore, Team Parker tops Team Delle Donne to win WNBA All-Star Game". ESPN. The Associated Press. July 28, 2018. Retrieved July 22, 2024.
  17. ^ Young, Ryan (July 27, 2019). "WNBA: Erica Wheeler leads Team Wilson at WNBA All-Star Game". Yahoo Sports.
  18. ^ Rapp, Timothy (July 14, 2021). "Arike Ogunbowale Wins MVP as WNBA Beats Team USA in 2021 All-Star Game". Bleacher Report.
  19. ^ "2022 WNBA All-Star Game: Team Wilson beats Team Stewart; Kelsey Plum wins All-Star MVP". CBS Sports. July 10, 2022.
  20. ^ Philippou, Alexa (July 16, 2023). "Jewell Loyd sets WNBA All-Star Game scoring record, wins MVP". ESPN.
  21. ^ Feinberg, Doug (July 20, 2024). "Arike Ogunbowale and Caitlin Clark lead WNBA All-Stars to 117-109 win over U.S. Olympic team". Associated Press.