Ranking A'ja Wilson's four WNBA MVP seasons - ESPN

As the talent around the WNBA improves, Las Vegas Aces center A'ja Wilson keeps raising her level. That's how Becky Hammon sees it. But one thing concerns the Aces coach when it comes to Wilson's chances to keep adding to the four league MVP awards she has earned.

«I just don't want people to keep moving the bar on A'ja,» Hammon told ESPN. «And if you've got voter fatigue, you shouldn't be voting. I don't let someone who plays tired keep playing; they've got to come out of the game.

»I'm like, 'Don't get tired of A'ja.' Because what you're watching is amazing."

Voter fatigue didn't affect Wilson this season. She received 51 of 72 first-place votes in earning MVP. Wilson has now won the MVP award in half of her eight WNBA seasons. Each of the honors is special, but how do they rank?

Wilson was so dominant last season that there was no suspense around who would be MVP. And it isn't just the best MVP season for Wilson; we ranked it as the best MVP season in WNBA history a year ago.

Wilson set the league record for scoring average (26.9), while also averaging career highs in rebounds (11.9) and blocks (2.6). She notched her second-highest field goal percentage (51.8). She received every first-place vote, only the second unanimous MVP choice in league history, joining Houston's Cynthia Cooper in 1997, the league's inaugural season.

Disappointment from not winning the 2023 MVP fueled Wilson throughout the 2024 season. In 2023, she not only didn't win in a tight three-way race with New York Liberty forward Breanna Stewart (the winner) and then-Connecticut Sun forward Alyssa Thomas (runner-up), but Wilson got a much-maligned fourth-place vote and finished third overall. That seemed to eat at her as much as not winning the award