{"id":784152,"date":"2026-07-25T18:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T18:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/784152\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T18:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T18:23:07","slug":"wnba-all-star-game-2026-mapping-kelsey-mitchells-limitless-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/784152\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA All-Star Game 2026: Mapping Kelsey Mitchell’s Limitless Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surrounded by superstars<\/a> Caitlin Clark and Aliyah Boston, Indiana guard Kelsey Mitchell enters her fourth WNBA All-Star Game as one of the league\u2019s most underrated offensive threats \u2014 quietly averaging a career-high 23.3 points per game this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about time that people give Kelsey her flowers,\u201d Boston said of her teammate. \u201cThe way that she shows up every single day, the way that she gives us everything, is so amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe’s incredibly underrated,\u201d echoed Clark. \u201cThere\u2019s not a better scorer in this league in a one-on-one matchup than Kelsey.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coming off a late-2025 health scare<\/a>, Mitchell has altered small parts of her routine ahead of the 2026 WNBA All-Star Game, with IV treatments now a fixture of her off-court recovery.<\/p>\n

Her outside game has only improved, averaging nearly three made 3-pointers per game while shooting a career-best 42%<\/a> from behind the arc.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want my game to always be limitless, and I can find different ways to do different things,\u201d Mitchell explained. \u201cIt was just about making sure I felt confident, trusting my work a lot more.\u201d<\/p>\n

If that wasn\u2019t enough, Mitchell\u2019s been pursuing a PhD<\/a> in Educational Leadership, aligning her All-Star mindset with a grad student\u2019s discipline.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe balance of being a professional athlete, and then having to go home and do some schoolwork \u2014 it keeps me honest,\u201d Mitchell said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s literally doing school work, and then goes and drops 30<\/a> on everybody,\u201d Clark laughed. \u201cPretty incredible.\u201d <\/p>\n

Kelsey Mitchell suits up for Team Coop in tonight\u2019s WNBA All-Star Game at 8:30 PM ET, live on ABC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrounded by superstars Caitlin Clark and Aliyah Boston, Indiana guard Kelsey Mitchell enters her fourth WNBA All-Star Game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[323896,177217,2839,4806,99,434],"class_list":["post-784152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-2026-wnba-all-star-game","tag-2026-wnba-season","tag-indiana-fever","tag-kelsey-mitchell","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}