WNBA All-Star Game: Amid Ogunbowale’s Historic Performance, Reese Shines

The WNBA All-Star game featured a historic offensive performance, but our “Chitown Barbie” also held her own. Team WNBA beat Team USA 117-109 thanks to the feats of Arike Ogunbowale, who blistered the Paris-bound Olympic squad by dropping 34 points, the most ever in a WNBA All-Star game.& Ogunbowale, who didn’t get any points in the first half, was breathtaking in the second. She scored all her points in the third and fourth quarters against a team that features several of the most decorated players in WNBA history, such as Diana Taurasi, Brittney Griner, A’ja Wilson and Breanna Stewart. Ogunbowale was nitroglycerin, nailing shot after shot with multiple defenders in her face. For chunks of the second half, teammates fed her the ball and let her go to work. It must have felt like déjà vu for the Milwaukee-born Notre Dame star, named the game’s MVP.& An MVP night for Arike Ogunbowale