As Beckett Harrison and Eric Nemchock outlined when previewing Coach of the Year and Most Improved candidates, respectively, the criteria for WNBA awards can be fungible and elusive.
That fungibility and elusiveness is all the more heightened for the league’s top individual honor: MVP. Is “value” most clearly conveyed through statistics and production? Do advanced stats, rather than traditional stats, better reveal “value”? How much does team success matter?
There are no easy answers to those questions. And the fact that the WNBA is blessed with many MVP-caliber players makes the answering those questions even more complicated and contested. Here are four players likely to be at the center of such conversations as the 2025 WNBA season unfolds:
A’ja Wilson (Las Vegas Aces)
No, M’VP Four doesn’t quite roll off the tongue like M’VP Three. However, if A’ja Wilson were to win a second-straight and fourth-overall MVP award, I trust Malia Obama and the rest of Wilson’s creative team to come up with another a’mazing ad campaign.
Last year, Wilson became only the second player to…
