NEW YORK — In her first season with the New York Liberty, Breanna Stewart has been named the 2023 WNBA MVP in the closest three-way race in league history, it was announced Tuesday.
Stewart and runner-up Alyssa Thomas of the Connecticut Sun were separated by seven points, the second-smallest margin between the winner and runner-up in the award’s history. The 13 points separating Stewart and the Las Vegas Aces‘ A’ja Wilson, who was third, mark the narrowest margin between the top three MVP vote-getters in league history.
“A tight MVP race is amazing for this league because that means multiple players are being talked about that can do a lot of different things,” Stewart said.
It is the second MVP award for Stewart, who won her first in 2018 while playing for the Seattle Storm in just her third season in the pros. Fast-forward to 2023 and she can’t help but reflect on how dramatically her life has changed as she etches her place in WNBA lore once more.
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