WNBA All-Star Game 2026: Team Coop vs Team Spoon Odds

Team Spoon opened as a 4.5-point favorite over Team Coop on DraftKings for the 2026 WNBA All-Star Game, the first the league has staged with icon-drafted rosters instead of player-captains. The game is Saturday, July 25 at the United Center in Chicago, 8:30 p.m. ET on ABC, and it arrives with two of its biggest draws, Caitlin Clark and Paige Bueckers, both working back from injuries in the days before tip.

The format change is the headline. For the first time, two Hall of Famers built the rosters as honorary general managers, which scrambled the usual star-picks-star theater and produced a genuinely two-sided betting matchup rather than an exhibition afterthought.

The New Draft Format

Cynthia Cooper and Teresa Weatherspoon served as honorary GMs, drafting from a 22-player pool of 10 starters and 12 reserves without regard to conference or position. Cooper's Team Coop was assigned Bueckers, who led all players with 1,045,051 fan votes. Weatherspoon's Team Spoon was assigned the second-leading vote-getter, Clark, at 1,023,321 votes.

The reserve round set the tone. Cooper used her first pick on Angel Reese, and Weatherspoon answered by taking Reese's Atlanta teammate Rhyne Howard. Becky Hammon of the Las Vegas Aces coaches Team Coop, while Minnesota's Cheryl Reeve runs Team Spoon.

2026 WNBA All-Star Game Rosters: Team Coop vs Team Spoon

The starters split into two balanced fives. Team Coop starts Bueckers, Fever guard Kelsey Mitchell, Liberty forward Breanna Stewart, Golden State forward Gabby Williams and Lynx forward Natasha Howard. Team Spoon starts Clark, Lynx rookie Olivia Miles, Wings forward Jessica Shepard, Fever center Aliyah Boston and Aces forward A'ja Wilson.

The Indiana Fever lead everyone with three starters in Clark, Mitchell and Boston. The marquee pairing is on Team Spoon, where Clark and Wilson, the reigning MVP favorite, share a lineup against a Bueckers-and-Stewart core on Team Coop. That is the split the spread is pricing.

Clark Is Healthy and Peaking

The best news for the game is Caitlin Clark's form. After an injury-plagued 2025 that cost her a trip to the All-Star Game, Clark is healthy and playing at an MVP level, headlined by a career-high 45 points and 10 assists in a July 17 win over Seattle, the first 40-point, 10-assist game in WNBA history. She was voted a starter and is expected to play, which matters for a Team Spoon side that is already favored.

Bueckers is the one lingering question. Dallas announced July 20 that she was cleared of a concussion after hitting her head the day before, and she is not in the league's protocol, though she sat that night with soreness. Her status is worth tracking on the injury report, but neither star arrives with the kind of long-term concern that reshapes an All-Star roster.

Betting and DFS Impact

Team Spoon at minus-4.5 is a real line, not a novelty. All-Star scoring runs high and defense runs light, so the game total sits well up in the triple digits, and these games tend to reward whichever roster keeps its stars on the floor longest. With Clark healthy and A'ja Wilson alongside her, Team Spoon carries the two names most likely to log heavy, star-level minutes, which is the shape of the spread.

The MVP context frames the star power. Wilson is the clear season MVP favorite and Bueckers her top challenger, with Clark, Miles and Stewart further down the board, and every one of those names starts Saturday. DraftKings also posted odds for Friday's 3-point contest at Wintrust Arena, where the shooting names on both rosters headline. For DFS, the read is minutes: in a game with no minutes floor for anyone, target the stars whose teams have every reason to let them run, and fade names a coach may pull early.

What to Watch Next

Friday is the appetizer. The 3-point and skills events run July 24 at Wintrust Arena, and they are the last live look at each star's health before Saturday. Then the injury reports: if Clark and Bueckers are both cleared and unrestricted, the spread is a straight roster-strength question, and if either is limited, the total is where the market will move first.

Chad AI tracks every WNBA player prop, team total and futures move inside the StatSniper app, feeding the WNBA daily picks, the AI sports picks hub and the Chad picks hub. For the wider award picture, read our 2026 WNBA MVP odds breakdown. Official rosters and voting totals are at WNBA.com.

FAQ

When is the 2026 WNBA All-Star Game? The 2026 AT&T WNBA All-Star Game is Saturday, July 25 at the United Center in Chicago, 8:30 p.m. ET on ABC.

What are the 2026 WNBA All-Star Game odds? Team Spoon opened as a 4.5-point favorite over Team Coop on DraftKings. All-Star scoring runs high, so the game total sits well into the triple digits.

Who are the WNBA All-Star Game captains in 2026? There are no player-captains this year. Hall of Famers Cynthia Cooper and Teresa Weatherspoon served as honorary general managers and drafted Team Coop and Team Spoon from the 22-player pool.

Is Caitlin Clark playing in the 2026 WNBA All-Star Game? Clark was voted a starter and is expected to play. She is healthy and in top form, coming off a career-high 45 points and 10 assists on July 17, the first 40-point, 10-assist game in WNBA history, after missing the 2025 All-Star Game with injury.

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