Gabby Williams is one of five players who earned WNBA All-Star nods for the first time in 2025 — a just reward for how the Seattle Storm’s do-it-all forward goes about her business.
Williams, a silver medalist with France at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, is enjoying a career year in 2025, starting every game for one of the WNBA’s top teams in Seattle. In her age-28 season, Williams is averaging a personal-best 13.8 points per game and is the league’s runaway leader in steals (51) and steals per game (2.6). She is averaging more shot attempts (11.9) and making more shots (5.4) than ever before; her 35 percent success rate from 3-point range is also a new career-best.
On Tuesday, WNBA All-Star captain Caitlin Clark made Williams her sixth selection during the All-Star Game Draft on ESPN — and despite some initial shock, it is sinking in for Williams that she will be representing Team Clark at the All-Star Game in Indianapolis on July 19.
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Speaking on Sports Illustrated’s “Around the W” podcast, Williams revealed that the prospect of her first All-Star appearance “still hasn’t hit” her, and she humorously wondered aloud as to whether the WNBA would “take it back.”
“It’s not something that was my goal,” Williams said. “My goal was to come back to Seattle and be whatever I needed to be for the team. That’s always my goal. Seattle never put pressure on me to be an All-Star, they just always told me ‘be you. Be Gabby.'”
The All-Star berth comes nearly three years after Williams flirted with the idea of playing the balance of her career overseas due to the higher salaries on offer there. But now? She has no regrets about returning to The W after the Olympics last year — or coming back to Seattle specifically.
“The fact that I get to be Gabby, and be an All-Star, I’m just so thankful for what Seattle has done for me,” Williams said.
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