{"id":801632,"date":"2026-08-03T19:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T19:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/801632\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T19:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T19:02:09","slug":"bam-adebayo-calls-girlfriend-aja-wilsons-success-breathtaking-amid-wnba-mvp-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/801632\/","title":{"rendered":"Bam Adebayo Calls Girlfriend A’ja Wilson’s Success ‘Breathtaking’ amid WNBA MVP Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat star Bam Adebayo lauded girlfriend A’ja Wilson as the Las Vegas Aces center goes for a fifth WNBA MVP.<\/p>\n

Adebayo told The Athletic’s James Jackson<\/a> that Wilson is achieving something “historic.”<\/p>\n

“I don’t even know how you put a word to what she’s doing,” he said. “It’s really breathtaking to see somebody continue to raise the bar. She’s a great person to look up to.”<\/p>\n

The Minnesota Lynx’s Olivia Miles could perhaps make this more of a race down the stretch as the rookie guard turns heads with each passing game. Right now, Wilson is the heavy MVP favorite.<\/p>\n

The three-time WNBA champion is averaging 26.8 points on 53.2 percent shooting along with 9.8 rebounds, 32 assists, 1.6 steals and 2.0 blocks.<\/p>\n

Wilson keeps adding new wrinkles to her game as well. Her 28 made three-pointers are approaching her single-season best (31), and she’s more efficient than ever (43.8 percent) from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n

In their quest for a fourth title in five years, the Aces are second in the WNBA at 20-9, and Wilson is the single biggest reason why. Las Vegas’ net rating falls from plus-12.0 to minus-11.8 when she goes to the bench, per WNBA.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wilson’s four MVPs already put her alone in league history. With five, she’d be chasing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s six for the most between the NBA and WNBA.<\/p>\n

Fans can occasionally be hyperbolic when comparing an active star with legends of the past. It’s not an exaggeration to say Wilson is on a trajectory to be the best women’s player since at least the inception of the WNBA in 1997 and perhaps further back than that.<\/p>\n

To Adebayo’s point, you run out of platitudes at a certain point to describe what Wilson is doing on a nightly basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Heat star Bam Adebayo lauded girlfriend A’ja Wilson as the Las Vegas Aces center goes for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-801632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801632","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=801632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}