AP Awards for WNBA

[MilfordHusky]

POY Wilson. Wilson, Collier, and Thomas unanimous 1st team. Others on the 1st team were A. Gray and K. Mitchell.

2nd team consisted of Paige, Sabrina, Nneka, Plum, and Young.

Paige was the ROY. Others on 1st team were Citron, Iriafen, Salaun, Lacan, and Malonga. Half of them are French.

Other awards:

DPOY Wilson

COY Nakase

Comeback Austin

Improved Burton

6th Player Hillmon

A'ja Wilson's incredible season earns her a second straight AP Player of the Year award

A’ja Wilson followed up a historic season with another incredible one to earn AP Player of the Year for the second straight time.

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[CTtoSanDiego]

This is about what I expected. Would have loved 1st team, but no way with her lousy Wings.

 

[azfan]

2025 WNBA End-of-Season Award Picks

One writer's choices for every award that the WNBA hands out at the and of the regular season, including this year's tricky MVP decision

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[The deacon]

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This was, for the most part, a well thought out and interesting read... after reading it the decision by the writer to lean to Collier over Wilson leads me to believe there are, indeed, those who'll vote for Naphesa even though the weight of writer's argument leaned to A'ja.

That'd be too bad because the fact that Napheesa's a fine person and she's a former UConn player, I fail to see how her value to the Lynx measured up this season to Wilson's value to the Aces.

Oh, well. We'll see.

 

[darrell]

I fail to see how her value to the Lynx measured up this season to Wilson's value to the Aces.

It’s really quite simple: While the Lynx were great without Napheesa on the floor, they were significantly better when she was. Their net rating was close to doubling and their offensive & defensive rating were much better with her.

 

[Blue Huskie]

It’s really quite simple: While the Lynx were great without Napheesa on the floor, they were significantly better when she was. Their net rating was close to doubling and their offensive & defensive rating were much better with her.

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And ONLY the second player to EVER get to the 50/40/90 plateau besides EDD. Pheesa got hosed by their selection of a player who routinely gets double digit points at the line while refs ignore her constant setting of moving screens. I can't stand the enormous favoritism she gets from the refs. Sour grapes on my part? Well yeah.

 

[Jonathan14]

POY Wilson. Wilson, Collier, and Thomas unanimous 1st team. Others on the 1st team were A. Gray and K. Mitchell.

2nd team consisted of Paige, Sabrina, Nneka, Plum, and Young.

Paige was the ROY. Others on 1st team were Citron, Iriafen, Salaun, Lacan, and Malonga. Half of them are French.

Other awards:

DPOY Wilson

COY Nakase

Comeback Austin

Improved Burton

6th Player Hillmon

A'ja Wilson's incredible season earns her a second straight AP Player of the Year award

A’ja Wilson followed up a historic season with another incredible one to earn AP Player of the Year for the second straight time.

apnews.com

Kelsey Mitchell is a great scorer, but she's a guard with an A:TO ratio under 2:1, and she's not a great defender. I think Paige, Jackie, or Sab should have replaced her on the first team, and Veronica Burton should replace Plum on the second team. I'm glad, at least, that VB was recognized with the MIP award. Just my hot take.

 

[bballnut90]

Kelsey Mitchell is a great scorer, but she's a guard with an A:TO ratio under 2:1, and she's not a great defender. I think Paige, Jackie, or Sab should have replaced her on the first team, and Veronica Burton should replace Plum on the second team. I'm glad, at least, that VB was recognized with the MIP award. Just my hot take.

Her A/TO ratio is 1.92.

Paige had a great year but was on the worst team in the league, and she is not a great defender either.
Sabrina's only shooting 40.1% from the season and 29.9% from 3. Also not a great defender.
Young's had a very good season but isn't a go to player like Mitchell.

Mitchell carried Indy to the playoffs despite very inconsistent PG play and enduring an unbelievable number of season ending injuries. She deserves the last spot on 1st Team.