The Lynx aren't playing in the WNBA Finals for the first time in four seasons. But they have more players on the first and second All-WNBA teams than any other team.
League MVP Maya Moore was the only unanimous pick to the first team, picked by all 38 voters. Moore, the league's leading scorer averaging 23.9 points per game, was named to the first team for the second consecutive season.
Lynx guards Lindsay Whalen and Seimone Augustus were both named to the second team.
Phoenix had two first-team selections: guard Diana Taurasi, the second-leading vote getter, and center Britney Griner. Candace Parker of Los Angeles and Skylar Diggins of Tulsa completed the first team.
Atlanta's Angel McCoughtry, Los Angeles' Nneka Ogwumike and New York's Tina Charles were the other second team picks.
• Whalen had 15 points and 11 assists as her Red team beat the White 95-87 on Thursday in a nationally televised women's national team intrasquad game from Annapolis, Md.
Niederreiter deal done
Nino Niederreiter, the winger who scored the clinching goal in the Western Conference quarterfinals last season for the Wild, agreed to terms on a three-year, $8 million contract Thursday, a week before the team reports.
"I'm glad it's over and I'm part of the Wild family again," Niederreiter said by phone from Portland, Ore., where he's skating with the Western Hockey League Winterhawks and working with his power-skating instructor. "I think it's all about now. The season's coming up and I think I found a way to score goals in the league and felt I got better and better as last season went on, so now I'm very happy to focus and not worry about the contract situation."
