Moore is MVP

Minnesota’s Maya Moore leads Team Parker to All-Star win and nabs MVP award.

MINNEAPOLIS — Maya Moore says she is routinely asked if she has room for all the awards she’s won in her basketball career. The Minnesota Lynx standout will have to make space for another trophy after her performance Saturday.

Moore won her third straight All-Star MVP award to lead Team Parker past Team Delle Donne 119-112 in the WNBA All-Star Game.

“Thank you for your concern for my storage space,” Moore deadpanned after being asked again about her room for awards.

Moore had 18 points, eight rebounds and six assists to win MVP on her home court.

“It’s crazy, it really is, to just be fortunate enough to continue to be in positions to win, to be playing well, to be healthy,” said Moore, who joined Lisa Leslie as the only three-time All-Star MVP and became the career scoring leader in All-Star history, passing Tamika Catchings’ mark of 108 points.

Aces A’ja Wilson and Kayla McBride were solid performers in a losing cause for Team Delle Donne.

Wilson, a rookie, had 18 points, five rebounds, an assist and two steals in 17 minutes. La McBride had 11 points and four rebounds in 19 minutes. Neither player started.

Team Delle Donne’s Kristi Toliver of the Washington Mystics led all scorers with 23 points, including 7-for-11 from 3-point range.

Eschewing the traditional East-vs.-West format for the first time, the league let captains Elena Delle Donne of the Mystics and Candace Parker of the Los Angeles Sparks choose sides from a pool of the top players in AllStar voting.

That allowed for the rosters to be heavily dominated (16 of the 22 players) by the Western Conference, home of six of the top seven teams in the league standings.

Allie Quigley of the Chicago Sky beat a field of six participants to win her second straight WNBA 3-point contest at halftime. After she and McBride tied with 18 in the head-to-head finals, Quigley caught fire in redo, scoring 29 of a possible 34 points and sending the crowd — and the sidelines — into a frenzy.