South Carolina women's basketball alum A'ja Wilson again wins WNBA Player of the Week honor

On Tuesday, the WNBA announced that South Carolina women’s basketball alum A’ja Wilson was the WNBA Western Conference Player of the Week.

The honor is Wilson’s third weekly nod in a row and her fifth of the 2025 season. She has all but locked up WNBA Western Conference Player of the Month for August, as well. Amazingly, it will be her first of the year.

Wilson picked up the honor after averaging 29.0 points, 12.7 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 1.3 steals, and 2.7 blocks per game across three contests from August 18-24. Unsurprisingly, with those efforts, her Las Vegas Aces team won all three games.

The Aces have now won 11 games in a row and have lost just once in the last calendar month. Vegas has clinched a spot in the WNBA Playoffs and now sits as the No. 3 seed. Wilson has scored at least 30 points five times and logged eight double-doubles during the winning streak.

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Wilson has now won the WNBA Western Conference Player of the Month award 27 overall times in her career. In the history of the league, she trails only Tina Charles’s 33 selections. With two more weeks of the regular season, she has a chance to break her own single-season record. She won the honor six times last season.

With her recent hot stretch, A’ja Wilson has also crept back into the MVP race. BetMGM’s WNBA MVP odds still favor Napheesa Collier, but Wilson has made a once-runaway race into a tight one.

The Aces have moved back into the top three in WNBA Finals title odds, as well. BegMGM only has the first-place Minnesota Lynx and defending-champion New York Liberty above Vegas.

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