A'ja Wilson Blows Past Incredible WNBA Milestone

Who is the best women’s basketball player in the world and face of the WNBA?

If your answer isn’t A’ja Wilson, you’re wrong. I’m sorry if that sounds rude. But I’m a journalist, and journalists are bound by the truth.

Wilson is the reigning WNBA MVP - the only four-time MVP in league history - WNBA Finals MVP, and Defensive Player of the Year. She collected those awards en route to leading the Las Vegas Aces to their third championship in four years. She’s the only player in WNBA history to check all four of those boxes in a single season.

Eleven games into the 2026 WNBA season, Wilson has found even more boxes to check. Most recently, the 2018 No. 1 overall pick became the fastest (278 games) and youngest (29 years old) to eclipse 6,000 career points in - stop if you’ve heard this before - WNBA history.

Wilson posted 34 points on 10-for-19 shooting, 12 rebounds, nine assists, and three blocks in the Aces’ 101-91 win over the Seattle Storm on Monday. It marked her fourth straight game with a double-double.

“You gotta do things on days that you may not be feeling great,” Wilson said after the game. “You still gotta show up and be great. I remember in our huddle today, I was like, ‘Hey, it’s a great day to be great!’ to my team. We gotta show up everyday ready to play, and I think you saw that today. To pass that list of greats, I’m blessed, I’m honored, but I still got a lot more work to do.”

It was less than a year ago that Wilson scored her 5,000th career point against the Connecticut Sun on June 25. She only needed 238 games to hit that mark.

But, as Wilson alluded to, she doesn’t care about what’s done.

Currently, she’s the WNBA’s leading scorer (25.9 points per game) and blocker (2.4) and is on the precipice of averaging a double-double if she can bump up her 9.6 rebounds per game.

The Aces are 8-3, good for second behind the Minnesota Lynx in the overall standings. Las Vegas and Minnesota are tied at 3-0 atop the Western Conference standings in the WNBA Commissioner’s Cup, but Minnesota has the edge on point differential.

Wilson and the Aces will next visit the Portland Fire on Thursday, June 11, before hosting the Lynx on Saturday, June 13.

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This story was originally published June 9, 2026 at 9:17 PM.