Las Vegas Aces IMPLODE As MASS TEAM EXIT Begins! Defend Caitlin Clark!

Do you think this is the beginning of the end of the Las Vegas Aces? Who will take their place to be the new dominant team in the W?

As a casual observer that really hadn’t been a WNBA fan until I was introduced to Caitlin Clark, the glaring issue to me is the super high egos on the Aces with some racism tossed into the equation.

Aja Wilson telling Plum that in her mind, Clark and Plum both made it to the WNBA because of their “white privilege”. What a horrible thing to say to a team mate! Now, Plum is supposed to admire and respect Wilson? I don’t think so!

I would think that it would be very difficult to have a good time and really enjoy working under those circumstances. Looking at the Fever, I see nothing but complete mutual respect and an atmosphere of esprit de corps.

A ‘Gung-Ho’ sense of togetherness and mutual support. As the teams leader, Aja is not going to get the very best from the bench with that attitude.

She said, with a tear falling from her eye, “I just want to be the best team mate…” I could not help but roll my eyes at that one!

A’ja Wilson is Alone on Wrong End of WNBA History After Aces Eliminated

Unanimous 2024 WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson will not like the history she made on Sunday.

Las Vegas Aces center A'ja Wilson (22) wins a jump ball Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, during a game between the Indiana Fever and the Las Vegas Aces on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The Aces defeated the Fever, 78-74. Las Vegas Aces center A’ja Wilson (22) wins a jump ball Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, during a game between the Indiana Fever and the Las Vegas Aces on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The Aces defeated the Fever, 78-74. / Grace Smith/IndyStar / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images.

After their 76-62 loss to the New York Liberty on Sunday, the Las Vegas Aces are now eliminated from the WNBA playoffs and their quest for winning three consecutive WNBA championships has come to an end.

Aces star forward A’ja Wilson finished the game with 19 points, 10 rebounds, and a whopping 5 blocks. While this is a solid performance for most players’ standards, her point total marks a significant decrease in her regular season points per game average, which was 26.9.

In fact, Wilson’s 21.8 points per game in the playoffs marks more than a 5-point-per-game decrease from her regular season numbers.

Of course, that insane regular season production earned Wilson the 2024 WNBA MVP award in unanimous fashion, having earned all 67 first-place votes.

There’s no question that Wilson earning this unanimous honor is well deserved. Yet, with her Aces squad coming up short of the WNBA Finals in the wake of her achievement, Wilson now finds herself on the wrong side of history.

X account @StatMamba posted a photo of Wilson after the Aces loss on Sunday and added the caption, “A’ja Wilson is the first unanimous MVP in NBA or WNBA history to not reach the Finals.”

While Wilson stands alone in this regard, it’s important to note that only two other players have won unanimous MVP honors in the WNBA and the NBA’s history. In the WNBA, the only person to do so before Wilson was Cynthia Cooper, who won unanimous MVP in 1997.

In the NBA, the only ever unanimous MVP was Steph Curry, who did so with the Golden State Warriors in 2016.

So while the list of unanimous WNBA/NBA MVPs is extremely small, Wilson stands out within it for an unfortunate reason.