The Stephen A. Smith ShowWNBA Player of the Week: A'ja Wilson shines MVP style, Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese are paired up as teammates. The WNBA All-star game should be tweaked.
Stephen A. Smith is a New York Times Bestselling Author, Executive Producer, host of ESPN's First Take, and co-host of NBA Countdown. Stephen A. talks about the WNBA All-Star game and crowns his WNBA Player of the Week.
Arguably the biggest sporting event of the weekend is the WNBA All Star Game tomorrow night in Phoenix, Arizona.
The game will.
Feature record setting rookies Caitlin Clark and Angel Reees playing on the same team for the w NBA All Stars against the USA Basketball women's national team before they head on over to Paris. WNBA has had more games, averaging over two million viewers this year than it did in the last four seasons, and we can expect another big number for this game as well. There's a lot to to to to give credit to for the WNBA. Let's remember Caitlin Clark. We gonna throw that name out there, but we ain't gonna fail to acknowledge Angel Reese cause Angel Reees in the Chicago Sky Andrew Reach's been doing her thing now. She hasn't had too much luck when going up against Asia Wilson, and I'll tell you why a little bit later on.
But let me tell you something right now.
Angel Reese has been bawling Caitlin Clark the other night.
I think had nineteen assist.
Let me tell you something right now, them too, and the way they go at each other and how they serve to popularize the sport.
Is one thing.
The WNBA's wisdom in feeding off of it to help promote the sport makes it even better, and so I want to give major, major props to the WNBA. I'm looking forward to this All Star Game.
I love the idea that All.
Stars going up against Team USA, although in my opinion, Asia Wilson, even though she's going to be a member for Team USA in Paris this summer, I personally believe she should be playing for the WNBA All Stars against Team USA for this particular All Star Game because she's been.
Playing in a WNBA all season long.
She should go against her Team USA teammates and bust they're living you know what, because Asian Wilson is the truth. Okay, she should be on their team because it might not be fair what they do to the WNBA players.
She should be on that team. But that's just me. That's just me.
I'm just looking forward to the game. I think it's gonna be really, really exciting. It's nice to see and it's gonna be interesting to see Caitlin Clark and Anguries not going against one another but playing together on the same team and how that relationship may evolve in the months and the years to come.
Let me move on to the.
W NBA Player of the Week who's a repeat winner, by the way, two TOM League MVP, Asian Wilson.
I already just spoke about her.
She's of the Las Vegas Aces on Tuesday night against Adyias in the Chicago's guy who's in that twenty eight points, fourteen rebounds, five blocks, and three steals for a six straight game this season with at least twenty points and ten rebounds ten rebounds for the Las Vegas Aces, the reigning defending two TOM WNBA champions, by the way, who are sixteen to eight for the season. Wilson is averaging twenty seven point two points per game and is on track to break Diana Tarrossi's single season points per game average of twenty five point.
Three set in two thousand and six.
I told y'all less a ready, I don't think this will be the last time I'm giving Asia Wilson loves. She is the truth and a half. She is big time. She's tall and she's bigger. She's ferocious. She's a champ. She's got a champion's heart. She ain't scared of anybody. She brings it every single night. And by the.
Way, she's a leftier Southport with a.
J girl be pulling up for threes. Okay, she is special, make no mistake about it. She is the best in the w NBA. Caitlin Clark might be the face and a lot of people's eyes, she ain't on this level as a player yet. I can tell you that much. Asia Wilson is the truth. And this will not be the last time I'm gonna give up my player of the weeks because she gonna bust everybody's but the Las Vegas As is gonna three p I don't care about the Liberty and the Minnesota Lynx and all of sudden.
Ain't been Age Wilson. I'm sorry, I just can't see it. I just can't see it. You got to show me.
You got to show me, did she I just can't see it because I just think she's that gift. And then have Chelsea Gray back and Kelsey plumbing the rest of the crowd. I mean, look, Asia Wilson, I just can't see it, y'all. I don't see nobody beating nothing. And you know, it's just like years ago when I said that the Lakers was gonna take Alon Iverson in the seventy sixties out in five games and said, AI, I get you one, but they're going home. And they was like, why can you say such a thing.
I said, shack, shack and more shack. And oh, by the way, that dude Kobe.
In this case with the w NBA, Asia Asia and more Asia.
She's that gifted. She really really is
