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Thomas Voted to Start 2017 WNBA All-Star Game
7/11/2017 2:37:00 PM | Women's Basketball
DURHAM, N.C. – Duke University alumna Jasmine Thomas of the Connecticut Sun was selected one of 10 WNBA players to start the 2017 Verizon WNBA All-Star game, which will take place Saturday, July 22, following a vote by fans, WNBA players and media.
The All-Star game will be aired live on ABC at 3:30 p.m. (ET) from KeyArena in Seattle, Wash.
Thomas, a 2011 Duke graduate, received her first WNBA All-Star nod as she is averaging career highs of 15.0 points and 5.2 assists. In the WNBA stats, Thomas ranks fifth in assists and 17th in scoring, while also ranking 11th in steals (1.4). She has accumulated four games of 20 or more points and registered a career-high 29 points against Seattle on June 29. Thomas has also dished a season-high 11 assists and swiped a season-best five steals against Atlanta and Washington, respectively.
In addition to Thomas, the Eastern Conference starting lineup includes Tina Charles (New York), Elena Delle Donne (Washington), Tiffany Hayes (Atlanta) and Jonquel Jones (Connecticut). The starters for the Western Conference are Diana Taurasi (Phoenix), Maya Moore (Minnesota), Candace Parker (Los Angeles), Sylvia Fowles (Minnesota) and Sue Bird (Seattle).
The All-Star reserves, who will be selected by the WNBA's 12 head coaches, will be announced on Tuesday, July 18 during ESPN2's telecast of Seattle and the Chicago Sky (9 p.m. ET).
Minnesota's Cheryl Reeve will serve as the West head coach and New York's Bill Laimbeer will guide the East after the Lynx and Liberty finished with the best regular-season records in their respective conferences in 2016.
Fans accounted for 50 percent of the vote to determine the starters for Verizon WNBA All-Star 2017, while current players and a media panel accounted for 25 percent each. Fans casted 604,680 votes, more than double the number in 2015 (280,670). No All-Star Game was held in 2016 due to the Summer Olympics.
After all votes were tallied, players were ranked in each conference by position (guard and frontcourt) within each of the three voting groups – fan votes, player votes and media votes. Each player's score was calculated by averaging her weighted rank from the fan votes, the player votes and the media votes. The five players (two guards and three frontcourt players) with the best score in each conference were named starters for Verizon WNBA All-Star 2017.
Fellow Duke University alumnae Karima Christmas-Kelly of the Dallas Wings placed ninth in the Western Conference Frontcourt voting, while Chelsea Gray and Alana Beard of Los Angeles finished seventh and 10th, in the Western Conference Guards voting, respectively.
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