Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz react to A’ja Wilson and the Las Vegas Aces winning their third WNBA Finals in the last four years. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV.
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3rd championship in 4 years after a sweep of the Phoenix Mercury.
They went back to back, and now they are back again.
So not only is this Aces team a true dynasty, I think we can add on top of the fact that it’s even more impressive that the Aces were able to find a way to get back to a championship without one key cog of their two previous championships in Kelsey Plum.
They were able to find themselves in this position after the first half of the season, they didn’t look very good.
They didn’t look like a very good basketball team.
They were just kind of the middle of the road team, and then at one point in the season after losing to the Lynx by 50, they turned everything around.
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This Aces team, in the latter half of the season looked like the 2022 and 2023 versions of the Las Vegas Aces.
So this team’s a dynasty.
They were able to find themselves back to a championship without one of their key players.
But A’ja Wilson also cemented herself as one of the best, if not the best players in the history of the WNBA.
She became the first player in WNBA history to win MVP, Defensive Player of the Year, Finals MVP, and a scoring title in a season.
The first player ever, ever in the history of those two leagues to accomplish that.
A’ja Wilson is one of the best players in the history of the league, and I think we’ve known that.
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But this season, what she was able to accomplish cements all of that.
Becky Hammon, I think, has cemented herself as one of the best coaches in the history of the WNBA in the league with incredibly rich history and with players and teams and coaches with a lot that they have accomplished.
We are currently witnessing one of the greatest runs that we have seen in sports.
