WNBA All-Star Game: Four-point shots, Napheesa Collier scoring record, Skylar Diggins triple-double
Team Collier scored 49 points in the first quarter and had 82 at halftime and pretty much led by more than 20 points over Team Clark most of the game.
It finished a 151-131 Team Collier win as its captain Napheesa Collier set a WNBA All-Star Game scoring record (36 points) and Skylar Diggins set a record for assists (15) and had the first triple-double in a WNBA All-Star Game.
Here are a few takeaways from Saturday night's WNBA All-Star Game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse:
This year, the WNBA All-Star Game added a few wrinkles, from hockey-like live-ball substitutions to 4-point shots. Shots from AT&T logos placed 28 feet from the rim (six feet behind the usual 3-point line) were worth four points, and they were popular.
"I'm just all four-point shots. Four-point shots. More, more, more. You don't realize how much they add up. We didn't take that into account," Caitlin Clark told the ESPN broadcast as Team Collier built a healthy 22-point lead at halftime.
Team Collier was 12-of-28 on 4-point shots with Collier hitting 4-of-5 and Allisha Gray hitting 3-of-5.
Team Clark was 8-of-37 on 4-pointers.
ESPN analyst Rebecca Lobo wasn't a fan of the innovation.
"I've got an opinion that might not be popular, I guess I'll share it... So I love that AT&T donates money to charity when players hit the 4-point shot, that's phenomenal... I don't like the 4-point shot," Lobo said. "The WNBA All-Star Game was more competitive before the players were all just launching the ball."
With a little help from the 4-point shot and an absence of anything that resembled defense, Minnesota Lynx star Napheesa Collier scored 30 points through the first three quarters, hitting 11 of her first 12 shot attempts. Collier hit four shots from the 4-point logos and finished with 36 points.
Arike Ogunbowale set the All-Star Game scoring record last season with 34 points.
Skylar Diggins, the 2009 IndyStar Miss Basketball out of South Bend Washington, set a WNBA All-Star Game record with 15 assists Saturday. Diggins' record-breaking assist was a double-record breaker as it led to another Napheesa Collier 4-point shot, which pushed the Lynx star's scoring total to 36 points, breaking the WNBA All-Star Game scoring record.
Sue Bird held the previous assists record with 11 in the 2017 All-Star Game.
Diggins finished with the first-ever triple-double in a WNBA All-Star Game: 11 points, 11 rebounds, 15 assists.
Kelsey Mitchell started in favor of her injured Fever teammate Caitlin Clark and scored 20 points on 8-of-13 shooting with two rebounds and two assists.
Aliyah Boston, selected as a starter on Team Clark, had nine points, six rebounds and two assists.
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