For the fourth time, WNBA stat A’ja Wilson has earned the league’s MVP award. This marks the second in a row Wilson received the honor. She also won the honor in 2020 and 2022. With the 2025 award, Wilson becomes the first four-time Kia WNBA MVP, breaking a tie with three-time MVPs Sheryl Swoopes (2000, 2002, 2005), Lisa Leslie (2001, 2004, 2006), and Lauren Jackson (2003, 2007, 2010).
Wilson received 51 of 72 first-place votes and 21 second-place votes, totaling 657 points, from a national panel of sportswriters and broadcasters. Minnesota Lynx forward Napheesa Collier finished second with 534 points, followed by Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas in third with 391 points. Atlanta Dream guard Allisha Gray took fourth place with 180 points, and Indiana Fever guard Kelsey Mitchell rounded out the top five with 93 points. Players earned 10 points for a first-place vote, 7 points for a second-place vote, 5 points for a third-place vote, 3 points for a fourth-place vote, and 1 point for a fifth-place vote.
In her eighth WNBA season, Wilson averaged 23.4 points, 10.2 rebounds, 3.1 assists, 2.3 blocked shots, and 1.6 steals in 31.2 minutes over 40 games. These are the second-best per-game averages of her career for scoring, rebounding, assists, blocks, and steals. She led the league in points per game for the second straight season and in blocks per game for the fifth time, having done so in 2020 and from 2022 to 2025. Wilson also scored the most points (937) and had the highest efficiency rating (29.2) in the WNBA.
This season, the 6-4 Wilson ranked among the top five in the WNBA for points (No. 1), rebounds (No. 2), blocks (No. 1), and steals (No. 4) per game for the second consecutive year. The only other player to achieve this in a season is Yolanda Griffith in 1999.
After Las Vegas entered the All-Star break with an 11-11 record, Wilson led the Aces to a strong finish of 19-3. This brought their overall record to 30-14 and secured them the No. 2 seed in the 2025 WNBA Playoffs presented by Google. Las Vegas won a franchise-record 16 consecutive games to close out the regular season, tying for the second-longest regular-season winning streak in league history. During that streak, Wilson averaged 26.1 points, 12.0 rebounds, 2.6 assists, 2.3 blocks, and 1.6 steals while shooting 52.7 percent from the field, 59.3 percent from three-point range, and 88.9 percent from the free-throw line.
