Why hasn’t a coach been named for Team WNBA in All-Star Game yet?

There’s a glaring void for the 2024 WNBA All-Star Game this Saturday in Phoenix.

The 12-person Olympic team and the league’s All-Star rosters are set to play each other. The league’s longest-tenured active coach Cheryl Reeve from Minnesota Lynx will helm Team USA’s sideline.

The host team Phoenix Mercury announced on Tuesday that global rap superstar Pitbull will be the halftime performer. But the league has not stated who Team WNBA’s coach will be.

The league usually gives All-Star coach honors to the individuals whose teams have the top records through the first half of the season. That would be Sandy Brondello from the No. 1 New York Liberty (20-4) and the reigning Coach of the Year in Stephanie White of the second-place Connecticut Sun (18-5).

Although, Brondello is coaching her native Australia in the Paris Olympics that begin on July 28. She might be out of pocket after Tuesday to prepare for international competition during the league’s upcoming Olympic break.

Team WNBA’s coach is being decided in favor of either White or Becky Hammon of the No. 3 Las Vegas Aces (16-7), a source confirmed to The Arizona Republic.

The two-time defending champion Aces are the league’s hottest team and enter the All-Star break on a four-game win streak, and have won 11 of their past 13.

However, Brondello is still up for consideration to coach Team WNBA.

This year’s Team USA-Team WNBA format is the second time the league has done it since the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Besides 2021, four of the past five All-Star Games have had player-selected rosters by captains, similar to the NBA’s format for several years, until the NBA went back to the Eastern-Western conference format in February.

The WNBA All-Star Games’ coaches from 1999 through 2017 for East vs. West All-Stars came from the teams with the best records.

This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Who will coach Team WNBA in 2024 All-Star Game?