Meet the Stars of the WNBA After Their 2025 Season Finish
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She’s certainly got game.
And we’re not just talking about A’ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart and Caitlin Clark!
For the 2026 WNBA season, USA Network will host at least 50 games, including Wednesday night doubleheaders and pre- and post-game commentary, all building up to coverage of the annual WNBA Playoffs and WNBA Finals. Plus, Kate Scott will lead the coverage.
So, ready to get to know the players a little better? Here’s a look at some of top athletes in the league.
A’ja Wilson
The star of the Las Vegas Aces’ victory in the 2025 Finals, Wilson was named Finals MVP for the second time in her career. She now holds a new record: The first WNBA player to win MVP, FMVP, and Defensive Player of the Year in the same season.
The accomplishment speaks volumes about who she is and where she’s been. Wilson has struggled with dyslexia and anxiety, and now uses her platform to help other children through the A’ja Wilson Foundation. Plus, she founded a candle business, Burnt Wax. After all, she said lighting candles is a calming ritual that helps her slow down after games.
Napheesa Collier
The 29-year-old is among several WNBA stars behind Unrivaled, a new women’s basketball league that offers an outlet for pros during the off-season.
Also helping her ball out? Sports executive husband, Alex Bazzell, who is also a founder and president for Unrivaled. The two met in high school and he soon became her full-time trainer while she was at the University of Connecticut. In 2022, they tied the knot and, later that year, welcomed daughter Mia.
Alyssa Thomas
Thomas made history playing for the Phoenix Mercury in 2025 with eight triple-doubles—twice the amount any other player has achieved in their entire career.
Off the court, she’s also winning with fellow WNBA star DeWanna Bonner, who met in 2020 when they both played for the Connecticut Suns. “I always say she’s my conscience,” Thomas told Essence. “During basketball season, I’m pretty intense and I want to win. She always talks with me, to make me think further about things I’ve said or done that I probably wouldn’t have otherwise thought twice about.
Breanna Stewart
The 6-foot-4 forward was out of commission for months during the 2025 season due to a bone bruise, finally returning to the New York Liberty for a playoff game against the Phoenix Mercury.
Nicknamed Stewie, she was named League MVP twice—and is a valued player off the court, too. She co-founded the Unrivaled basketball league and is an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and Black Lives Matter movement. She shares kids Ruby and Theo with wife and retired Spanish basketball player Marta Xargay Casademont.
Allisha Gray
As a guard for the Atlanta Dream, Gray led the team to a franchise-record 30 victories in the 2025 season. When she first joined the WNBA in 2017, she was named Rookie of the Year and has since racked up major accolades, such as WNBA All-Star three times.
To unwind, she hits the green. “Golf is just something that helps me take my mind off the game of basketball and have fun doing something else in life,” she told SELF. “Plus, I’m outside getting my vitamins and stuff like that. Basketball is an inside game, so golf is cool because you get to kind of enjoy nature as well.”
Jackie Young
Raised by a single mom in Princeton, Indiana, Young shot hoops with her older brother, Terrence, on a grass court in her backyard, which, she recalled, “pretty much turned to dirt because of so much playing out there.”
She’s since moved on to greener pastures. After playing for the University of Notre Dame, she was the Las Vegas Aces’ no. 1 draft pick in 2019 and helped lead them to victory this year, winning her third WNBA championship.
Sabrina Ionescu
In 2020, she was the no. 1 draft by the New York Liberty, and just four years later, helped lead the franchise to its first WNBA championship.
The University of Oregon alum credits her mentor Kobe Bryant for inspiring her drive. "I wanted to be just like him—to love every part of the competition, to be the first to show up and the last to leave, to love the grind, to be your best when you don't feel the best and make other people around you the best version of themselves and to wake up and do it again the next day,” she previously shared. “So that's what I did: wake up, grind and get better."
Nneka Ogwumike
This family reigns on the court. The 35-year-old and her younger sister Chiney Ogwumike both played for Stanford and went on to the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks. While her sister stepped back to focus on her sports broadcasting career, the 6-foot-2 forward catapulted, well, forward, becoming a nine-time All-Star and serving as president of the WNBA players’ union.
The 2026 season will be her 15th with the WNBA.
Angel Reese
At Louisiana State, Reese made headlines when she won the 2023 national championship. The next year, she made history with the Chicago Sky as the first WNBA rookie to achieve seven consecutive double-doubles. The 23-year-old makes power moves off the court too, recently teaming up with Magic Johnson on a financial literacy program for Baltimore youth.
Raised by a single mom, Angel Webb Reese, who played and pro basketball basketball, Reese recalled who she came to love the sport. “I used to go to my mom’s games when I was younger… That was something that was always inspiring to me,” she said in interview. “She’s always been independent, and she molded that into me. I am who I am because of her.”
Caitlin Clark
With her sheer athleticism and uncanny shooting accuracy, the Iowa native smashed records at the University of Iowa and won two Naismith College Player of the Year awards before turning pro in 2024 with the Indiana Fever.
In 2024, she was named Rookie of the Year and Time Magazine’s Athlete of the Year. However, injuries cut her 2025 season short. "I had a full intention of returning, and I think, in a way, that was probably positive for me, because that's how I approached every day, I came in here like I was going to play," Clark recently told reporters. "It probably would have been even more devastating and crushing knowing that I was never going to be able to put my uniform back on for the rest of the season. But you just approach it every single day, you attack it and you get better, and it'll be the same for me going forward. That work doesn't stop. I think I've had really good perspective on it all, and that's probably what I'm most proud of, too."
