Congratulations to the Las Vegas Aces’ Alysha Clark, who was voted the 2023 KIA WNBA Sixth Player of the Year.
Clark received 35 of 60 votes from a panel of media members, capturing the award over the Connecticut Sun’s DiJonai Carrington, who finished second with 13 votes, and the Chicago Sky’s Dana Evans, who was third with nine votes. The Dallas Wings’ Kalani Brown, New York Liberty’s Marine Johannés and Seattle Storm’s Sami Whitcomb all received one vote.
An 11-year veteran who joined Vegas last offseason as a free agent, Clark came off the bench in 38 of the 39 games she played, averaging 6.7 points per game as she shot 38.6 percent from 3. With Clark’s win, a member of the Aces has won four of the past five Sixth Player of the Year Awards, with Dearica Hamby (now with the Los Angeles Sparks) winning back-to-back honors in 2019 and 2020 and Kelsey Plum winning in 2021.
The significance of Clark’s Sixth Player of the Year win
Clark represents a departure from the typical Sixth Player of the Year archetype. Oftentimes, the Sixth Player of the Year Award has been…
