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Michael Voepel
As the talent around the WNBA improves, Las vegas ekka Center A’aza Wilson It keeps increasing its level. In this way Becky Hamon sees it. But one thing worries about the ACES coach when Wilson’s four leagues come to Wilson’s opportunities to add MVP awards.
Hamon told ESPN, “I don’t want people to move the bar on AAESA.” “And if you have got voter tired, then you should not vote. I do not give to someone who plays tired, I got to come out of the game.
“I like,” Don’t get tired of Aja. ” Because what you are seeing is amazing. ,
Voter fatigue did not affect Wilson in this season. He received 51 out of 72 first place votes in earning MVP. Wilson has now won the MVP award in half of his eight WNBA sessions. Each honor is special, but how do they rank?
1. 2024: A unanimous option
Wilson was so effective in the previous season that there was no suspense around who would be the MVP. And this is not just the best MVP season for Wilson; We WNBA rank it as the best MVP season in history A year ago.
Wilson set a league record for the scoring average (26.9), while the height of the career in the rebound (11.9) and block (2.6) is also average. He did not see his second largest field round percentage (51.8). After joining Houston, he got votes in every first place, only the second unanimously joined MVP Choice, Houston Synthia Cooper In 1997, the league opening season.
Disappointment by winning 2023 MVP fuel Wilson in the 2024 season. In 2023, she did not win not only a tight three-way race New York Liberty Ahead Breena stewart (Winner) and again-Connecticut sun Ahead Elisa Thomas (Runner-up), but Wilson got votes in fourth place and finished third. It seemed that he had to eat as much as the award was not winning.
Wilson and Aces did not win the WNBA title in 2024, which fell in the semi -finals in New York. But Wilson was individually a season superstar, with statistics that would be difficult to repeat anyone.
2. 2025: Strong finishing kick
What is the most with this year’s MVP? For Las Vegas, how important every game was from the stretch run of the season to secure the number 2 seed. Wilson put the Aces on his back and ran to a mountain from a record of 14–14 to the 16-game winning line to close the regular season. In league history it is difficult to find a comparable team turnaround, and it discontinued MVP voters.
Wilson made an average of 23.4 points and 10.2 rebounds, making him the first WNBA player at least 20 points and 10 rebound average in several sessions. She was a co-defense player of the year with Minnesota Alana Smith,
29 -year -old Wilson said that she still finds ways to improve, and this is the part that keeps him so enthusiastic.
“I just want to be the best for my team,” Wilson told ESPN. “I do not want to leave any question or asteroid, or someone asked, ‘What happened?” I never want my performance to be questioned, as if I did not prepare well. ,
3. 2022: An MVP And A championship
It was a two-player race between Wilson (31 first place votes) and Stewart (23). This was the first season of Hamon as ACES head coach, and he felt that it was almost a dead heat.
“Obviously, I wanted Aja to win, but I was so,” You can give a very good argument for the stevy to win it. ” I thought it was the closest race, “Hamon said.” In my opinion, 2023 should not have been closer – I felt that Aja should have won – and in 2024, Aisa was historic. “
After the loss of a crushed semi -finals Phoenix mercury In 2021, Wilson was on a mission to win the first championship for Las Vegas in 2022. He took an average of 19.5 points and 9.4 rebounds in a regular session, which reached the record of 26–10 to Aces. He then defeated Surya 3–1 in the WNBA final.
4. 2020: success season
Wilson was WNBA’s No. 1 Pick and Ruki of the Year at 2018, made a playoffs for the first time in 2019, then won MVP in his third season. The League played that year with a 22-game regular session in a Kovid bubble in Bradanton, Florida.
Wilson and Stewart were the top candidates of MVP, but Wilson dominated the ballot with 43 out of 43 votes. He an average of 20.5 points, 8.5 rebounds and 2.0 blocked shots.
But Stewart, which was with Seattle from 2016 to 2022, got Postsen’s best in 2020. He and Hurricane defeated Wilson and Aces 3–0 in the WNBA final.
A state actually stands out of Wilson’s first MVP season compared to its other three. He did not attempt 3-pointers in 2020. He made 31 3-pointers in 2022, 19 in 19, 2024 and 25 this year.
