Hammon, Wilson recognized by WNBA as regular season ends

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NEW YORK (Las Vegas Aces) - The WNBA announced Friday that Aces forward A’ja Wilson is the Western Conference Player of the Week for games played from Sept. 9-19. It is the 6th weekly honor for Wilson this season and 22nd of her career. Only 4 players in league history have as many or more career player of the week awards than Wilson—Tina Charles (32), Candace Parker (27), Elena Delle Donne (24) and Tamika Catchings (22).

Wilson averaged a league-high 23.0 points and 11.3 rebounds, while adding 2.0 assists, 1.0 steals and 1.8 blocks (5th), and making 45.3 percent of her field goal attempts. The Aces went 4-0 in games in which she played.

Wilson also earned the May, June and July Western Conference Player of the Month awards this season.

The front-runner for the 2024 M’VP award leads the league in scoring (26.9 ppg) and blocked shots (2.6), while ranking 2nd in rebounding (11.9 rpg), 5th in steals (1.8 spg) and 7th in field goal percentage (.518).

Coach of the month

The WNBA announced Friday that Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon earned the WNBA Kia Coach of the Month Award for September 2024 for leading the Aces to a league-best 8-1 record on the month.

In addition to the 8-1 record, Hammon’s Aces posted a league-best +10.3 scoring differential while holding opponents to 74.2 points per game, allowing only one opponent to score more than 80 points.

This is Hammon’s third WNBA Coach of the Month award in her third season in the league after the eventual 2022 WNBA Coach of the Year also garnered it in May 2022 and June 2023.