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Is A'ja Wilson's MVP-caliber WNBA season the greatest ever?

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The seeds for A'ja Wilson's dynamic 2024 WNBA season were planted before last season was even over. In a tight three-player race for MVP a year ago, the Las Vegas Aces star finished third -- and was unhappy about it.

It was nothing against the winner, the New York Liberty's Breanna Stewart, or the runner-up, the Connecticut Sun's Alyssa Thomas, who got the most first-place votes. Wilson admires both Stewart and Thomas, who were her U.S. Olympic gold medal teammates this summer.

But after having an even better 2023 season than in 2022 -- when Wilson won her second MVP -- not getting the honor last year bothered her.