{"id":882925,"date":"2026-09-04T10:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/882925\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T10:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:20:18","slug":"wnba-power-rankings-the-top-15-players-right-now-fiba-break-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/882925\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Power Rankings: The Top 15 Players Right Now (FIBA Break Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The WNBA<\/a> has reached its international pause, with every team having played 40 of 44 regular-season games and all eight playoff spots secured. League play resumes September 17 following the September 4-13 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup in Berlin.<\/p>\n

With the break upon us, I thought it would be an ideal time to reset and evaluate the league’s top 15 players.<\/p>\n

To be clear, this is a power ranking, not an MVP ballot or career-achievement list. Full-season performance establishes the baseline, but recent form, efficiency, two-way responsibility, availability and team context are the ultimate separators. Notably, eight members of my top 15 are headed to Berlin with Team USA, while A\u2019ja Wilson<\/a> withdrew for unspecified health reasons.<\/p>\n

Before beginning the countdown, Jessica Shepard<\/a>, Nneka Ogwumike<\/a>, Natasha Howard<\/a> and Sonia Citron<\/a> deserve mention as the most difficult omissions. Kelsey Plum<\/a> is an availability exclusion rather than a performance exclusion. Plum’s 21.5 points and 5.4 assists in 17 games would have placed her comfortably in the top 15, but a lower-left-leg injury has ended both her WNBA season and World Cup campaign.<\/p>\n

Let’s get to the rankings!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WNBA has reached its international pause, with every team having played 40 of 44 regular-season games and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[251435,104805,4662,4643,4652,724,732,251436,306408,306402,251421,251434,306424,4657,49,735,48,251437,3459,23934,306412,306413,306414,306416,287895,1612,2803,251438,35092,4650,631,3460,98960,251439,632,736,251440,729,11578,3457,251441,4653,123521,4658,113996,3461,6740,12197,4649,82,150094,306406,251420,306403,306423,306418,25737,2393,737,10627,630,124631,28453,14511,251431,5689,306407,251429,306410,306411,251428,306419,306420,25640,251426,306405,154192,306422,306417,251433,306404,251425,251423,251424,251432,29879,306421,306409,251427,251422,4501,251430,306415],"class_list":["post-882925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-2026-wnba-predictions","tag-2026-wnba-season","tag-aja-wilson","tag-allisha-gray","tag-alyssa-thomas","tag-angel-reese","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-atlanta-ga","tag-best-players-in-the-wnba","tag-best-wnba-players","tag-best-wnba-players-2026","tag-best-womens-basketball-players","tag-best-womens-basketball-players-2026","tag-breanna-stewart","tag-ca","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-canada","tag-dallas-tx","tag-dallas-wings","tag-eastern-conference","tag-fiba-break","tag-fiba-womens-basketball-world-cup","tag-fiba-womens-basketball-world-cup-2026","tag-fiba-world-cup-2026","tag-golden-state-ca","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-indiana-fever","tag-indiana-in","tag-jessica-shepard","tag-kelsey-mitchell","tag-kelsey-plum","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-las-vegas-nv","tag-los-angeles-ca","tag-los-angeles-sparks","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-minnesota-mn","tag-napheesa-collier","tag-natasha-howard","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-new-york-ny","tag-nneka-ogwumike","tag-olivia-miles","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-phoenix-az","tag-phoenix-mercury","tag-rhyne-howard","tag-shakira-austin","tag-sonia-citron","tag-sports","tag-team-usa-womens-basketball","tag-top-15-wnba-players","tag-top-wnba-players","tag-top-wnba-players-2026","tag-top-womens-basketball-players","tag-usa-womens-basketball","tag-veronica-burton","tag-washington-dc","tag-washington-mystics","tag-western-conference","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-2026","tag-wnba-all-stars","tag-wnba-all-star-weekend","tag-wnba-analysis","tag-wnba-basketball","tag-wnba-best-players-right-now","tag-wnba-championship-contenders","tag-wnba-fiba-break","tag-wnba-fiba-break-2026","tag-wnba-mvp-candidates","tag-wnba-mvp-race","tag-wnba-mvp-rankings","tag-wnba-news","tag-wnba-opening-night","tag-wnba-player-power-rankings","tag-wnba-player-rankings","tag-wnba-player-rankings-right-now","tag-wnba-players-at-fiba-world-cup","tag-wnba-power-rankings","tag-wnba-power-rankings-2026","tag-wnba-preview-2026","tag-wnba-rankings-2026","tag-wnba-season-preview","tag-wnba-slideshow","tag-wnba-stars","tag-wnba-stars-2026","tag-wnba-superstars","tag-wnba-tip-off-2026","tag-wnba-top-15-players","tag-womens-basketball","tag-womens-basketball-rankings","tag-womens-basketball-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882925","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=882925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}