“A’ja Wilson will be Finals MVP if the Aces are to clinch this title. Yeah, listen. She has broken so many records this year, I can’t even remember them, so I have to read them,” said Ari Chambers, backing Wilson for the Finals MVP. And she’s far from the only one showing her love after Game 3 of the WNBA Finals.
Wilson set a Las Vegas Aces franchise Finals record with 34 points, surpassing Jackie Young’s 32-point mark, and delivered what will likely go down as one of the greatest buzzer-beaters in WNBA Finals history. After the Mercury erased the 17-point lead the Aces had built late in the fourth quarter, the Aces turned to Wilson on the final possession–and she delivered.
With just five seconds remaining, Las Vegas coach Becky Hammon called a timeout while Jackie Young scrambled for