{"id":162010,"date":"2025-09-22T18:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/162010\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T18:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:46:09","slug":"las-vegas-aces-star-aja-wilson-makes-wnba-history-with-fourth-mvp-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/162010\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Aces star A’ja Wilson makes WNBA history with fourth MVP award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Las Vegas Aces star A’ja Wilson has been voted the 2025 WNBA Most Valuable Player, marking the fourth time she has won the award and breaking a new record.<\/p>\n

She’s the first four-time MVP winner in the WNBA’s history. Sheryl Swoopes, Lisa Leslie and Lauren Jackson are all three-time MVP winners. <\/p>\n

The seven-time WNBA All-Star received 51 of 72 first-place votes from a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters. Wilson was presented with the MVP trophy on Friday.<\/p>\n

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Minnesota Lynx forward Napheesa Collier received the second-highest number of votes, Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas was third, Atlanta Dream guard Allisha Gray was fourth and Indiana Fever guard Kelsey Mitchell came in fifth.<\/p>\n

Wilson is the Aces’ all-time leading scorer, and her jersey was retired earlier this year.<\/p>\n

The accolades didn’t stop there for Wilson. Earlier this week, she was also named Co-Defensive Player of the Year for the third time. She shares the award with Minnesota Lynx forward Alanna Smith.<\/p>\n

This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Aces star A’ja Wilson has been voted the 2025 WNBA Most Valuable Player, marking the fourth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-162010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162010","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=162010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}