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A'ja Wilson: TIME100 Most Influential People in Sports 2026
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A quick reminder of A’ja Wilson’s mind-blowing 2025: The 6-ft. 4-in. Las Vegas Aces superstar won a record fourth WNBA MVP award. She became the fastest player in league history to reach 5,000 points. And she became the first player in WNBA or NBA history to—deep breath—win a championship, claim the scoring title, and be named Finals MVP, league MVP, and Defensive Player of the Year in the same season. In that same year, Nike debuted Wilson’s signature shoe, the A’One, the first for a Black WNBA player from the brand in more than two decades. (Nike unveiled the second edition, the A’Two, in Paris in March.) As if this all weren’t enough, her buzzer-beating shot in Game 3 of the WNBA finals, over two Phoenix Mercury players, gave her a legacy-defining moment to be played on a loop. Is there any question she’s the best women’s hoops player of all time? “I think I’m on my way there,” Wilson told TIME for its 2025 Athlete of the Year story. “I’m making it real hard for people to chase after me. That’s what it means to be the GOAT.”
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A'ja Wilson's career growth offers clear example for Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark
If you ask just about anyone who regularly watches the WNBA who the best player in the league right now is, they're going to tell you A'ja Wilson. Sure, there are plenty of people who will also answer a different player (usually their favorite), but it's pretty tough to deny that what Wilson is doing on the court is very special.
Her coach Becky Hammon is often one of the first people to note exactly that. Wilson added on 34 points, 12 rebounds, 9 assists, 1 steal, and 3 blocks on 52.6% shooting from the field and 3-5 from the beyond the arc against the Seattle Storm this week, a feat that helped her fly past 6,000 career points faster than anyone else in the history of the WNBA. As Hammon put it, "It seems like she’s breaking a record every day, so you start to lose track of them."
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