A’ja Wilson’s numbers in 2025 were like none other.

Nobody in the history of the WNBA — or the NBA, for that matter — has put together a season like the one Wilson did for the Las Vegas Aces this year.

She won the WNBA’s MVP award. Won the scoring title. Helped her team win a championship . Was the WNBA Finals MVP.

All that has been done in the same season before on the NBA level, most recently when Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander pulled off the feat this past season. Michael Jordan did all that four times, while Shaquille O’Neal and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar did it once.

But they never did it while also reigning as the NBA’s defensive player of the year. Wilson shared that award in the WNBA this season with Minnesota’s Alanna Smith. And that makes her 2025 resume unprecedented.

See Full Page