By DOUG FEINBERG
Basketball Writer
NEW YORK-- A'ja Wilson leads Caitlin Clark by simply over a thousand votes in early fan voting for the WNBA All-Star Game, the league revealed Friday.
Clark's Indiana colleague Aliyah
Boston is 3rd, about 40,000 votes behind the leaders.
Wilson is having an unbelievable season, averaging 27.9 points and 11.3 rebounds. She has 217,773 votes. Clark is ideal behind with 216,427.
The
Las Vegas Aces star got the most fan votes last season, however that overall was just 95,860.
New york city's Breanna Stewart is 4th and
Dallas' Arike Ogunbowale is 5th.
Chicago's Angel Reese is seventh in the voting and is the just other rookie in the top 10. Fellow first-year players Cameron Brink and Kate Martin were just outside the leading 10 in 11th and 12th.
Sabrina Ionescu of
New York (6th), Kelsey Plum of
Las Vegas (eighth), Napheesa Collier of Minnesota (ninth) and Dearica Hamby of
Los Angeles (10th) complete the first 10.
The All-Star Game will be used July 20 in
Phoenix and will pit WNBA All-Stars versus the U.S. Olympic team.
All-Stars are picked by a mix of fan vote (50%), existing WNBA gamers (25%) and media (25%).
After voting closes, the top 10 vote-getters will be called as All-Star Game participants, with any gamers competing for the U.S. on the Olympic group remaining on their group. The rest of the WNBA team will be picked by the league's coaches from a swimming pool of the next 36 greatest vote-getters, which need to consist of 15 post players and 9 guards.
Coaches aren't permitted to choose their own gamers.
The final WNBA All-Star Game rosters will be revealed on July 2.
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