Halis S\u00fcnnetci<\/p>\n
09 October 2026\u2022Update: 09 October 2026<\/p>\n
Las Vegas Aces center A’ja Wilson won a record fifth Women\u2019s National Basketball Association (WNBA) Most Valuable Player (MVP) award for the 2026 season, becoming the first player in league history to claim the honor three consecutive times.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old American extended her own record for the most MVP awards, having previously won the honor in 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n
Wilson averaged 26.2 points, 9.4 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game during the regular season.<\/p>\n
Her scoring average ranked second in WNBA history behind her own record of 26.9 points per game, set in 2024.<\/p>\n
She also became the first player in league history to average at least 25 points per game while shooting 50% or better from the field and 40% or better from three-point range.<\/p>\n
Wilson helped Las Vegas finish the regular season with seven consecutive victories and a 31-13 record, securing the No. 3 seed in the playoffs.<\/p>\n
The Aces, trailing the Golden State Valkyries 2-0 in their best-of-five semifinal series, face elimination in Friday’s Game 3 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
Although the team planned a pregame ceremony to honor her achievement, Wilson said she would not participate, preferring to focus on preparing for the game.<\/p>\n
“I love the fans, but I will not be doing that,” Wilson said.<\/p>\n
“I will be warming up with my team. … Everyone in this room knows how much of a competitor I am and what my main focus is.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Halis S\u00fcnnetci 09 October 2026\u2022Update: 09 October 2026 Las Vegas Aces center A’ja Wilson won a record fifth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,232171,82,630],"class_list":["post-926780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sitekeywords","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926780","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=926780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}