Yahoo Sports basketball analyst Isis “Ice” Young and women basketball writer Cassandra Negley breakdown the front-runners for the 2024 WNBA Most Valuable Player and Rookie of the Year awards.
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With w teams having about 10 to 12 games left in the season.
Uh as it’s winding down, we get to talk about awards and who we feel like has showed off and showed out this season.
So, CASS, let’s start with MVP.
I have been very clear about this.
It was almost like our in Don staley, we trust for NC A tournament.
It’s in Asia Wilson is the MVP.
I just think she continued to show us that she’s the best player in the league.
I think that she’s dominating in terms of scoring the basketball for her team.
She’s second in rebounding in the league.
She’s first in blocks in the league.
She also averages two steals a game, um just doing a little bit of everything and she continues to get better if there’s nothing that impressed me more about Asia Wilson.
To be quite honest, it’s that every year we see her, she continues to get better.
She continues to dominate uh your thoughts on MV PM VP.
I think Asia is still the front runner, but I think the gap is a lot smaller than I felt like when we talked two weeks ago.
Is playing out of her mind, including those two games against the Aces, just elevated numbers around the board.
She’s shooting like 60% after the break compared to 40% before.
And she’s playing so well for the links right now that I think she has a strong case to take some number one votes from Asia.
I, I have obviously Asia Nafisa, Alyssa Thomas, uh Sabrina Nesco, I completely agree with that.
She has been the most valuable player this season for the New York Liberty.
Let’s move into our rookie of the year.
The players I’m considering for it.
Kaitlin Clark Angel Reese obvious.
We talk about them at Nauseam Rakia Jackson is having an incredible season in Los Angeles.
Uh Certainly, I think if Kaitlin and Angel weren’t kind of running away with a rookie of the year race, maybe we’d have a third in there.
The two that are, you know, really in this head to head rookie of the year conversation seems like every other week Caitlin is breaking this record and then Angel breaks this record.
The most recent one for Angel is that she’s tied Tina Charles for uh the most double doubles in a season as a rookie.
She’s at 22 as of August 27th and we know what CC continues to do um for the Indiana fever, but just have to say the rookie class has been stellar.
