This story is part of a series from SB Nation profiling the 2025 WNBA All-Star teams. Today, let’s get to know Courtney Williams. Making it as a professional athlete is all about defying the odds, and no one knows that better than Courtney Williams.

Courtney Williams didn’t appreciate what Angel Reese had to say after their upset win this past Saturday night.  Following the Chicago Sky's six-point home vict

Even though Diana Taurasi has retired, the WNBA's biggest trash talker remains in Phoenix. Taurasi held down the honor for the past two years, but now it's Mercury star Alyssa Thomas' turn. Thomas now holds the baton as the league's No. 1 trash talker, according to her peers in an anonymous poll from The Athletic.

The season has gone in some fascinating directions, some expected (the Minnesota Lynx dominating), some unexpected (the Las Vegas Aces struggling). However, with as much as we can glean from the halfway point, what are our biggest takeaways from the 2025 WNBA campaign so far?

Sabreena Merchant and Ben Pickman of The Athletic shared the results of an anonymous WNBA player's poll Monday, and the Phoenix Mercury star was named the biggest trash talker in the league.

The season is almost to its halfway point, and we have two games on Monday. The Lynx are in Chicago for a weird back-to-back against the same team in the same location. Meanwhile, the Mercury take on the upstart Valkyries.

Minnesota Lynx players Courtney Williams and Natisha Hiedeman are planning to do a non-stop livestream during the entirety of the WNBA All-Star Weekend.