WNBA All-Star 2025: live updates, highlights from 3-point competition, Skills Challenge

The WNBA All-Star celebrations 2025 begin with the 3-point competition competitions on Friday evening. In each event, five of the top performers of the league will be on the line with more than just bragging rights – they will play for cash prizes.

This year the insurance partner AFLAC achieved a price of $ 60,000 for the winner of the 3-point competition and another $ 55,000 for the winner of the Skills Challenge. The WNBA will bring in the winner of each competition another 2,575 US dollars.

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Allisha Gray, the Atlanta Dream Guard, is the only player who takes part in the 3-point competition and the Skills Challenge this year. In both competitions, he has a victory of 2024 of the first player in WNBA history in 2024, who won both events in the same year.

Here is a look at everything you need to know about this year's WNBA 3 points competition and skills Challenge:

2025 WNBA 3-point competition: participants, rules, format

According to the rules for the 3-point competition, Wnba.com shares with:

The 3-point participants of the WNBA Starry® will compete at a time-controlled two-round competition with a ball shelf, which are positioned at five main records around the three-point arch. Four of the racks contain four official WNBA play balls worth one point each and a “money” call worth two points. With each ball worth two points, the fifth rack will be a special “All Money Ball” rack. Each competitor selects his preferred place for the “All Money Ball” rack among the five shooting locations.

In addition, two spherical wedestale on Deep Shot locations are positioned as “The Starry® Range”. Each base finds a special “Starry® Ball”. Shots with the “Starry® Ball” are worth three points. The two players with the highest scores in the first round will climb into the last round.

This year the following participants accept the Court of Justice:

• Sonia Citron (Washington Mystics)

• Allisha Gray (Atlanta Dream)

• Sabrina Ionescu (New York Liberty)

• Kelsey Plum (Los Angeles Sparks)

• Lexie Hull (Indiana fever, replaces Caitlin Clark)

Ionescu and Gray took home both earlier victories in 2023 and 2024. In 2023, Ionescu set up the 3-point competition both in the WNBA and in the NBA with a high point of 37 in the last round. Ionescu sits as a winner to win the event with +125 opportunities for BetmGM Sportsbook, while Allisha Gray is sitting at +375.

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2025 WNBA skills Challenge

Wnba.com describes the Skills Challenge as “a time-controlled obstacle course that tests a variety of basketball capabilities: dribble, bounce pass, breastpass and outlet pass and shots that contain an elbow jumper, a 3 pointer from the top of the arc and one corner three.”

The participants in this year's Skills Challenge competition include:

• Natasha Cloud (New York Liberty)

• Skylar Diggins (Seattle Storm)

• Allisha Gray (Atlanta Dream)

• Erica Wheeler (Seattle Storm)

• Courtney Williams (Minnesota Lynx)

Gray is preferred to repeat this year's Skills Challenge with +275 on BetmGM Sportsbook, followed by Skylar Diggins at +325, Natasha Cloud at +340 and Courtney Williams at +360.

Why doesn't Caitlin Clark take part?

Although Clark committed to the event, she suffered a groin injury on Tuesday evening when she and the fever of Indiana were confronted against the Sun in Connecticut. The injury came too late in the game, with only 39.6 seconds in the fourth quarter.

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Fever chief coach Stephanie White told reporters after the game that Clark “felt something in her groin area”. The injury only comes from an earlier groin injury, which forced you to miss five games between the end of June and early July. It is unclear whether Clark's injury is a new engravation of her previous or new groin injury.

Date: Friday, July 18th

Time: 8 p.m. et

Location: Gainbridge Fieldhouse | Indianapolis, Indiana

TV channel: ESPN, ESPN+

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