By the time the buzzer sounded in Phoenix on Friday night and the Las Vegas Aces sealed their WNBA Finals sweep over the Phoenix Mercury to win their third championship in four years, there was no doubt who would be named Finals MVP.
It was A'ja Wilson's trophy, given at the culmination of A'ja Wilson's season, smack dab in the middle of the A'ja Wilson era of women's basketball. It is hard to have a true GOAT conversation while a player is in the prime of their career, but it's certainly clear you can't start that conversation without mentioning Wilson -- and it feels inevitable that one day soon her name it going to end it, too.
But there will be time for those debates, short as they may be. For now I feel confident saying this: This was the most impressive season of her alread