WNBA.com's 24 Days of All-Star Balloting Today's Player: Tari Phillips, New York Liberty Running from June 1-24, the 2003 WNBA All-Star Balloting program allows fans to select the starting lineups for this year's All-Star Game on July 12. To help you decide how to cast your vote, check out WNBA.com's daily analysis of last year's All-Star roster and some of the candidates to fill the spots in 2003. Vote Now!

Will Tari Phillips be back in the All-Star Game in 2003? Jesse D. Garrabrant WNBAE/Getty Images

PHILLIPS' STATISTICS
YEAR	FG%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2003 TO DATE*	.385	.667	3.5	2.0	1.50	.00	7.0
2002 SEASON	.491	.675	7.0	1.3	1.81	.44	14.1
2002 ALL-STAR GAME	.323	.273	9.3	0.3	0.33	1.00	7.7

The WNBA's Most Improved Player in 2000, New York Liberty center Tari Phillips earned her third All-Star appearance -- and second as a starter -- in 2002. She finshed the game with four points and 10 rebounds in 22 minutes of action.

Last season, Phillips posted five 20-point or more performances, leading the Liberty in points per game (14.1), rebounds per game (6.8), field-goal percentage (.491) and steals per game (1.8) and earning All-WNBA second team honors.

So far in 2003*, Phillips has started off well below her season averages over the last few years. With the Liberty only two games into their season, Phillips is averaging 7.0 points and 3.5 rebounds per game.

All right, you make the call: it's up to you whether or not to vote Phillips back into the starting lineup of this year's All-Star Game: Cast your vote.

Of course there are other Eastern Conference centers to consider as well. Need a little more info before you cast your vote? Here's a quick look at the stats to date of the Eastern Conference centers on this year's All-Star ballot: Stats Comparison.

Check out previous days' featured players:
Tina Thompson | Teresa Weatherspoon | Sue Bird | Dawn Staley | Ticha Penicheiro | Tamika Catchings | Sheryl Swoopes

* 2003 statistics through games played on June 5.