Phoenix Mercury Make Roster Move Before WNBA All-Star Break originally appeared on Athlon Sports. After finishing the 2024 WNBA season at 19-21 and missing out on the playoffs, Phoenix entered 2025 with sweeping changes.

All-Star Weekend has arrived, marking the midpoint of the 2025 WNBA season. It is a celebration of the best in the league and a chance to take a breather before the grind of the second half and postseason. Here is what to look forward to this weekend, whether you’re in Indianapolis or following along from afar.

Napheesa Collier, Kayla McBride and Courtney Williams will be representing the Lynx on the court in Saturday’s WNBA All-Star Game. Coach Cheryl Reeve will be leading Team Collier. But the Lynx

The WNBA did not have an official All-Star Game in 2010, but Phoenix Mercury legend Diana Taurasi and some of her teammates played in the Stars At The Sun game.

The major free agent who could change the balance of power among the top three teams is Emma Meesseman, the 2019 WNBA Finals MVP who last played in the league in 2022, when she was an All-Star for the Chicago Sky.

Even though Diana Taurasi has retired, the WNBA's biggest trash talker remains in Phoenix. Taurasi held down the honor for the past two years, but now it's Mercury star Alyssa Thomas' turn. Thomas now holds the baton as the league's No. 1 trash talker, according to her peers in an anonymous poll from The Athletic.

The Phoenix Suns star posted photos of himself on Instagram at James Turrell's Roden Crater volcano observatory in Flagstaff, on July 18.

WNBA players rated the Phoenix Mercury as the league's best-run franchise, according to a poll conducted by The Athletic. State of play: In the anonymous poll of 39 players from all 13 franchises — no rookies were included to best represent veterans' views — 28.6% of respondents picked the Mercury.