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For the first time since early in the WNBA campaign, we have a new MVP favorite with a week remaining in the regular season.<\/p>\n
Napheesa Collier<\/a> was a sizable -1100 favorite heading into Thursday’s Lynx<\/a> at Aces<\/a> battle, while A’ja Wilson<\/a> was listed as a +650 underdog. Wilson led the Aces to a 97-87 victory, leading the team with 31 points on 12-of-15 shooting and eight rebounds. She also helped hold Collier to just 12 points on 5-of-13 shooting.<\/p>\n Now Wilson currently leads the way for MVP at -122 at FanDuel<\/a>, with Collier close behind at -104. Wilson was as high as +10000 for the award back on July 9-12 as well as on Aug. 6. Wilson has been the catalyst of the Aces’ 13-game winning streak, as Las Vegas went from 14-14 and in danger of missing the playoffs to 27-14 and currently in second place in the WNBA standings.\u00a0<\/p>\n Over that 13-game winning streak, Wilson has dropped at least 30 points seven times and posted double-doubles in eight of those contests. She’s now averaging 23.6 points and 10.1 rebounds per game on 50.2% shooting, while Collier is at 23.1 points and 7.5 rebounds on 53.0% shooting.<\/p>\n One factor for MVP voting between Wilson and Collier could be how the teams performed when their stars were sidelined. The Lynx went 6-1 when Collier suffered a right ankle sprain, while the Aces have gone 2-2 without Wilson. There has also been just one WNBA MVP winner who has also missed at least 15% of games that season (which Collier will if she plays 38 of 45 games) —\u00a0Jonquel Jones<\/a>\u00a0played 27 of 32 games in 2021 with the Connecticut Sun<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagn Images For the first time since early in the WNBA campaign, we have a new MVP favorite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[4662,67831,67829,8603,8604,6359,49,48,3458,12200,3460,736,729,67832,67830,82,630,8601,67828,8602,67826,67827],"class_list":{"0":"post-122124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-aja-wilson","9":"tag-aja-wilson-mvp-odds","10":"tag-aja-wilson-wnba-mvp","11":"tag-basketball-odds","12":"tag-basketball-picks","13":"tag-betting","14":"tag-ca","15":"tag-canada","16":"tag-connecticut-sun","17":"tag-jonquel-jones","18":"tag-las-vegas-aces","19":"tag-minnesota-lynx","20":"tag-napheesa-collier","21":"tag-napheesa-collier-mvp-odds","22":"tag-napheesa-collier-wnba-mvp","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-wnba","25":"tag-wnba-betting","26":"tag-wnba-futures","27":"tag-wnba-gambling","28":"tag-wnba-mvp","29":"tag-wnba-mvp-odds"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}