On Wednesday, the WNBA announced the rosters for the 2021 All-Star Game. The format will be in a Team USA vs. Team WNBA format, something that hasn’t been done since the 2010 season when the USA was preparing for the FIBA World Championship for Women, now known as the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup. There was also a similar format in 2004 when the USA Basketball women’s national team played a team of WNBA All-Stars in New York City.
Since Washington Mystics center Tina Charles and forward Ariel Atkins made the national team roster already, they are also named WNBA All-Stars.