WNBA: A’ja Wilson, Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark are Peak Performers

Congratulations to the WNBA’s Peak Performers for the 2024 season:

A’ja’s unparalleled scoring

Netting nearly 27 points per night, A’ja Wilson has not only established a new standard for scoring excellence in the WNBA, but she has also set a high bar for work ethic and improvement. Her point scoring prowess is the product of her expanded offensive game, where she is a threat to score from all spots on the floor. She’ll roast defenders on the block, race past opponents for an easy transition bucket, drain an unguardable middie, earn her way to the line for freebies and swish the occasional triple. It’s an arsenal of abilities that she built, making herself into one of the most unstoppable offensive forces the league has ever seen.

Wilson’s 26.9 points per game is the highest scoring average in WNBA history. She also became the first player to score 1,000 points in a season, setting the mark at 1,021.

Angel owned the glass

Being a great rebounder requires a number of ingredients. There’s effort, energy, length, strength, athleticism, instinct and intelligence. In Angel Reese, those ingredients have combined into a perfect cocktail of rebounding precocity. For a Sky team that had to earn wins with grit and hustle, the Chi Barbie brought more than her fair share of both, with Chicago’s one win in the six games she missed due to a late-season wrist injury serving as evidence of her impact.

Reese’s 13.1 rebounds per game is the highest single-season rebounding average in league history. Along the way, she also tallied a WNBA record 15-straight double-doubles.

Dishes and dimes from CC

Before the season, Caitlin Clark hipsters might have insisted that it was her preternatural passing, not her logo 3s, that would make her an instant-impact player as rookie. Now, everyone’s aware of Clark’s passing chops. Her elite vision, in combination with her eagerness to play with pace, creates oodles of scoring opportunities for her teammates, helping the Fever lead the league in offensive rating since the Olympic break.

In addition to leading the league with 8.4 assists per game, Clark set the single-season mark for assists (337), a number boosted by the single-game record 19 assists she tossed on July 17.