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The Napheesa Collier team dominated the Caitlin Clark team from start to finish and won a 151-131 victory in WNBA All-Star came on Saturday evening behind a record evening of Minnesota Lynx.
Necklace finished with 36 points in the match. She broke the score record that was set by Dallas Wings Arike Ogunbowale star in the 2024 match.
Necklace is an All-Star five times and has an average of 23.2 points and 7.6 rebounds per game when she helped the Lynx at the top of the WNBA classification with a record of 20-4.
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Napheesa Collier (24 years old) from Minnesota Lynx celebrates a 4 points on Saturday July 19, 2025, during the WNBA Stars match in Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (Grace Smith / Indystar / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
She was appointed MVP of the WnBA Star Match.
Seattle Storm Storm Skylar Diggins, from Team Collier, has set a record for most of the assists in a star match and became the first player to record a triple-double in the event. She had 11 points, 11 rebounds and 15 assists
Indiana Fever star Kelsey Mitchell managed the Clark team with 20 points.
However, the speech on the game concerned the message of the players concerning a salary increase in the negotiations of the collective negotiation agreement (CBA) during the break.
Each All-Star Wnba wore a shirt that said: “Pay us what you owe us”, during heating up before the match. Fans were heard to sing “Pays-les”, during the awards ceremony.
July 19, 2025; Indianapolis, in, USA; The striker of the Napheesa Necklier Collier team (24) looks before the WNBA All Star 2025 match at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. (Images of Trevor Ruszkowski-Imagn)
“The crowd says it for us,” said necklace when asked to share his message.
WNBPA president Nneka Ogwumike congratulated players for using their platform.
WNBA stars send a message to the league before the stars play in the midst of ABC litigious negotiations
“I am so inspired by the number of players who arose, the commitments that were there,” she said. “This is really what it is. Because the more it happens, the more we will be able to get things done. I think that today, we will be able to use this conversation to start rolling the ball on things.”
A’ja Wilson de Las Vegas Aces, right, spoke with Kayla Thornton of Golden State Valkyries during the first half of a basketball match of the WNBA All-Star against Team Necklier, on Saturday July 19, 2025 in Indianapolis. (APPO / Michael Conroy)
Despite the assertion, WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert said on Saturday evening that she was optimistic that an agreement would be concluded.
“I am always really optimistic that we would do something that would be transformational,” she said. “And that, next year in All-Star, we will talk about the quality of everything. Obviously, there is a lot of work to do on both sides to get there.”
The players met league officials on Thursday and the teams did not conclude an agreement. Chicago Sky star Angel Reese was one of the many WNBA players who expressed their criticism of negotiation management by the League.
“It was a revelation for me. As, hearing things and hearing the language of things and not things that I was happy to hear. It was disrespectful the things we were sent back, the proposal that we were sent back,” she said on Friday.
“It is important to be able to be vocal. If I sit down, it seems that I don’t care.”
Aliyah Boston (7) of Indiana Fever (7) warmed on Saturday July 19, 2025, before the WNBA stars match in Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (Grace Smith / Indystar / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
New York Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu said the players were not going to be satisfied with “the minimum” in the negotiations, while Phoenix Mercury Satou Sabarly player called the last CBA of the League a “slap in the face”.
