Wilson still in driver's seat to win WNBA MVP
Vaughn Dalzell and Trysta Krick discuss their best bets for WNBA MVP, including why A'ja Wilson can hold firm on her title, the curiosity surrounding Caitlin Clark's odds and Paige Bueckers as a longshot.
Video Transcript
Trista, I gotta hand it to you.
You've been pretty hot in the WNBA market.
Paige Bueckers is one of your favorite MVP picks heading into this season.
She's sitting at 10 to 1, so offering some value, but this is a market that has shifted a little bit, and I wanna talk to you about A'ja Wilson still in the driver's seat.
She had a phenomenal game the other day against Golden State, and we have Caitlin Clark at plus 240 sitting there as well.
Anything stand out to you, any long shots worth shouting out?
Well, I think you've got players like Paige that I understand, you know, being 10 to 1, and I still think there's value there.
I- if you put, put a gun to my head, I think A'ja Wilson absolutely still is in the driver's seat for a reason.
She's so consistent defensively.
Offensively, the, the Aces look like they should be the favorite to win the title.
All of those add up to A'ja winning the award, right?
Mm-hmm.
But to me, it's, it's not about the long shots because I feel like there's not anyone that sticks out.
Maybe a Kelsey Plum, but she's been dealing with injury.
To me it's like, why is Caitlin Clark plus 240 to win this award?
She's got the second shortest odds in the league.
Horrible price.
You talk about out of my price range.
I need, for me to feel comfortable with Caitlin taking her to win this award, 10, 15, 20 to 1 because she's averaging, yes, 24 and 8, but she's also second in the league in turnovers so far this season, and mostly her body doesn't look right.
Yes, we know that she's defensively been a cone and teams are going at her relentlessly, but offensively, if her three-point shot is not hitting, she has no wiggle to be able to change directions, to get straight line down, downhill into drives.
She's laboring.
She's dealing with back soreness.
We've got rumors that Stephanie White might be fired.
She's really in the news for her attitude.
I feel like the sentiment on Caitlin Clark has really turned and is continuing to turn.
We're getting think pieces written about her in USA Today.
The Fever are a 500 team, and we were thinking that they would be a lot better than this.
So we're gonna need a lot of factors to turn around for Caitlin Clark to win this award.
So for her to be plus 240 makes no damn sense
