The WNBA announced on Friday the five finalists of the most precious prize of the players in what should be a tight decision.
The quarter MVP a’ja Wilson des AS de Las Vegas joined the Minnesota Lynx Naphees Collier striker, the Phoenix striker Mercury Alyssa Thomas, the Dream Guard of Atlanta Allisha Gray and the Indiana Kelsey Mitchell fever in the top five during the vote.
The league will have announced the winner on Sunday morning. He was considered a race of three women among Wilson, necklace and Thomas.
Wilson, in the running for its fourth MVP prize from the WNBA in eight seasons of the League, also won it in 2020, 2022 and 2024. She helped the ASs put an end to the regular season on a sequence of 16 consecutive victories, with an average of 26.1 points, 12.0 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 2.3 blocks per match in this race.
In 40 games this season, she has an average of 23.4 points plus 10.2 rebounds and 3.1 assists. Wilson also won the co-defensive player of the year alongside Alanna Smith from Minnesota this week; Wilson ranked second in the Ligue en Blocs (92) and third in interceptions (64).
Collar, 28, was the defensive player of the year of last year and the MVP of the All-Star 2025 game. She became the second woman in the history of the League to display a shooting season of 50-40-90, after Elena Delle gives in 2019; Necklace ended the year by pulling 53.1% in the field, 40.3% on a range of 3 points and 90.6% at the line of fault.
Necklace collected an average of 7.3 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.6 interceptions per competition on 33 games.
Thomas, who has received MVP votes four of the last five seasons and has been a finalist in 2023, collected an average of 15.4 points, 8.8 rebounds and a summit in the league and in career of 9.2 assists on 39 games.
Mitchell played the 44 games for fever and collected an average of 20.2 points – third in the League in Wilson and necklace – and 3.4 assists.
Gray filed 18.2 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game in 42 games for the dream. She finished third in the vote for the price of the most improved players.
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