Article 706HM Aces’ peerless A’ja Wilson wins record fourth WNBA MVP award

Aces’ peerless A’ja Wilson wins record fourth WNBA MVP award

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  • 29-year-old also won award in 2020, 2022 and 2024

  • Wilson was also Co-Defensive Player of the Year

Las Vegas Aces star A'ja Wilson is in a class by herself, winning the WNBA MVP for an unprecedented fourth time.

She also won the award last season as the unanimous choice, after also winning in 2020 and 2022. Sheryl Swoopes, Lisa Leslie and Lauren Jackson all won the award three times. Wilson and former Houston Comets star Cynthia Cooper were the only players to win the award unanimously. Cooper was the only other woman to win the award in consecutive years, doing so in the first two seasons of the WNBA (1997-98).

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