{"id":713505,"date":"2026-06-19T12:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/713505\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T12:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:07:23","slug":"aja-wilson-earns-record-30th-western-conference-player-of-the-week-honor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/713505\/","title":{"rendered":"A\u2019ja Wilson earns record 30th Western Conference Player of the Week honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LAS VEGAS (<a href=\"http:\/\/fox5vegas.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"http:\/\/fox5vegas.com\/\">FOX5<\/a>) \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson added another milestone to her resume.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Las Vegas Aces, the Aces star earned Western Conference Player of the Week honors for a record-setting 30th time. The WNBA honor covers games from June 8 through June 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wilson led Las Vegas to a 3-0 week, including a win over the then-No. 1 Minnesota Lynx. She averaged 30 points, 9 rebounds, nearly 5 assists and a league-best nearly 3 blocks per game while shooting better than 50% from the floor, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">MORE ON FOX5: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5vegas.com\/2026\/06\/17\/aja-wilson-named-next-wheaties-box-champion-spotlighting-las-vegas-aces-star\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fox5vegas.com\/2026\/06\/17\/aja-wilson-named-next-wheaties-box-champion-spotlighting-las-vegas-aces-star\/\">A\u2019ja Wilson named next Wheaties Box champion, spotlighting Las Vegas Aces star<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She had two 30-point games and has now scored at least 20 in 11 straight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Against Seattle, Wilson dropped 34 points and became the fastest player in WNBA history to reach 6,000 career points. She followed that with 32 against Portland, then a 24-point, 10-rebound double-double in a Commissioner\u2019s Cup win over Minnesota that pushed the Aces into the top spot in the standings, according to the press release.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KVVU. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (FOX5) \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson added another milestone to her resume. According to the Las Vegas Aces,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[307086,31172,650,4677,99,17814,434,73201],"class_list":["post-713505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-000-career-points","tag-31172","tag-aja-wilson","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-sports","tag-western-conference","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-player-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}