A'ja Wilson

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Born
1996 (29 years old)
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Columbia, South Carolina

Position
Power Forward

Status
Active

Ethnicity
Black

Team Number
22

Height
6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)

Weight
195 lb (88 kg)

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$1.67m

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Basketball

Team
Las Vegas Aces

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United States Basketball Women

League
WNBA

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Description

A'ja Riyadh Wilson (/ˈeɪʒə/ AY-zhə; born August 8, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Las Vegas Aces of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).

Wilson played for the South Carolina Gamecocks in college, and helped lead the Gamecocks to their first NCAA Women's Basketball Championship in 2017, and won the NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player award. In 2018, she won a record third straight SEC Player of the Year award, leading South Carolina to a record fourth straight SEC Tournament Championship, becoming the all-time leading scorer in South Carolina women's basketball history, and was a consensus first-team All-American for the third consecutive season. Wilson swept all National Player of the Year awards (Wade, AP, Honda, USBWA, Wooden, and Naismith) as the best player in Women's College basketball for 2018. In the 2018 WNBA draft, she was drafted first overall by the Aces.

Wilson won her first WNBA MVP in 2020, as well as her first Olympic Gold medal in the 2020 Summer Olympics. In 2022, Wilson helped lead the Aces to their first title in franchise history, a feat she repeated in 2023 while earning Finals MVP. On July 7, 2024, in a matchup against the Dallas Wings, she became the Aces' all time leading scorer in franchise history. She is also a New York Times best-selling author. She also won the gold medal in basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics. On September 15, 2024, A'ja Wilson became the first WNBA player to score 1,000 points in a season when she had 29 in the Las Vegas Aces' 84-71 win over the Connecticut Sun.

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WNBA All Star	Las Vegas Aces	2026
All-WNBA First Team	Las Vegas Aces	2025
WNBA Finals MVP	Las Vegas Aces	2025
WNBA	Las Vegas Aces	2025
WNBA blocks leader	Las Vegas Aces	2025
WNBA scoring champion	Las Vegas Aces	2025
WNBA peak performer	Las Vegas Aces	2025
WNBA MVP	Las Vegas Aces	2025
WNBA Defensive Player of the Year	Las Vegas Aces	2025
WNBA All Star	Las Vegas Aces	2025
All-WNBA First Team	Las Vegas Aces	2024
Basketball Olympics Gold Women	United States Basketball Women	2024
WNBA blocks leader	Las Vegas Aces	2024
WNBA scoring champion	Las Vegas Aces	2024
WNBA peak performer	Las Vegas Aces	2024
WNBA All Star	Las Vegas Aces	2024
WNBA MVP	Las Vegas Aces	2024
WNBA Finals MVP	Las Vegas Aces	2023
WNBA blocks leader	Las Vegas Aces	2023
All-WNBA First Team	Las Vegas Aces	2023
WNBA Defensive Player of the Year	Las Vegas Aces	2023
WNBA	Las Vegas Aces	2023
WNBA All Star	Las Vegas Aces	2023
WNBA blocks leader	Las Vegas Aces	2022
WNBA MVP	Las Vegas Aces	2022
WNBA Commissioners Cup	Las Vegas Aces	2022
FIBA Womens World Cup	United States Basketball Women	2022
All-WNBA First Team	Las Vegas Aces	2022
WNBA All Star	Las Vegas Aces	2022
WNBA Defensive Player of the Year	Las Vegas Aces	2022
WNBA	Las Vegas Aces	2022
WNBA All Star	Las Vegas Aces	2021
Basketball Olympics Gold Women	United States Basketball Women	2020
WNBA blocks leader	Las Vegas Aces	2020
WNBA MVP	Las Vegas Aces	2020
All-WNBA First Team	Las Vegas Aces	2020
WNBA All Star	Las Vegas Aces	2019
FIBA Womens World Cup	United States Basketball Women	2018
WNBA Rookie of the Year	Las Vegas Aces	2018
WNBA All Star	Las Vegas Aces	2018
NCAA Basketball Women	South Carolina Women	2017