{"id":239727,"date":"2025-09-19T20:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/239727\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T20:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:13:09","slug":"las-vegas-aces-star-aja-wilson-could-make-wnba-history-as-first-four-time-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/239727\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Aces star A&#8217;ja Wilson could make WNBA history as first four-time MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) \u2014 A&#8217;ja Wilson was named one of five finalists Friday for WNBA MVP, putting the Las Vegas Aces star in potential position to become the league&#8217;s first four-time winner.<\/p>\n<p>The other finalists were Minnesota Lynx forward Napheesa Collier, Atlanta Dream guard Allisha Gray, Indiana Fever guard Kelsey Mitchell and Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The award, voted by a media panel, will be announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson last season joined Cynthia Cooper of the 1997 Houston Comets <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wnba-mvp-wilson-aces-5aca3d5ce060653d2ecbc6dfff53fa2e?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:as the only unanimous selections;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">as the only unanimous selections<\/a>. That tied her with Sheryl Swoopes, Lisa Leslie and Lauren Jackson as the only three-time winners.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson also won the award in 2020 and 2022. The other four finalists have not won the MVP award.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson led the league with averages of 23.4 points and 2.3 blocks for the second-seeded Aces.<\/p>\n<p>Collier was the best player on the league&#8217;s best team, averaging 22.9 points and 7.3 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP WNBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) \u2014 A&#8217;ja Wilson was named one of five finalists Friday for WNBA MVP, putting the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":239728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[2341,1522,4552,1503,94351,128267,234,1493,4144,93962,1515,1519,2336,1502,128266,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-239727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-aja-wilson","9":"tag-allisha-gray","10":"tag-alyssa-thomas","11":"tag-atlanta-dream","12":"tag-cynthia-cooper","13":"tag-houston-comets","14":"tag-indiana-fever","15":"tag-kelsey-mitchell","16":"tag-las-vegas-aces","17":"tag-lauren-jackson","18":"tag-lisa-leslie","19":"tag-minnesota-lynx","20":"tag-napheesa-collier","21":"tag-phoenix-mercury","22":"tag-sheryl-swoopes","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115232794663015100","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}