As the Las Vegas Aces begin their quest for a third consecutive WNBA championship, their star forward, A’ja Wilson, will lead the team having received the league’s highest honor. On Sunday, Wilson was named the 2024 WNBA MVP, becoming only the second player ever to win the award unanimously and the first since the Houston Comets’ Cynthia Cooper-Dyke in the league’s 1997 inaugural season.
That Wilson took home the award was of little surprise. Her season was arguably the most dominant in WNBA history. She set a new WNBA single-season scoring record (26.9 points per game) and also set single-season records with 1,021 total points — she was the first player ever to cross the 1,000-point mark — and 451 total rebounds. Wilson was also the first player to lead the WNBA in total points, rebounds and blocks (98) in a season.
“I don’t want it to ever get lost on how good (A’ja) is,” Aces coach Becky Hammon told reporters in mid-September. “She just does it all. She’s in the middle of a run that sometimes I want to shake her and say, ‘Do you know how good you are?’ But then I don’t want to shake her because I don’t want to wake her up. She can just stay in whatever zone she’s in.”
Records shattered. Milestones conquered.
A’ja Wilson claims her…
