Nightcap Hour 3: A’ja Wilson WINS 5th MVP + Giannis Says He’ll Be TOP 10 ALL-TIME + SGA Declares HIMSELF as BEST Player In The NBA

Shannon Sharpe (0:00)

A'ja Wilson has now won a fifth MVP award, her third consecutive. A'ja averaged 26.2, 9.4 rebounds, 3.2 assists, 1.9 blocks, and 1.4 assists. No other player in WNBA history has won the award more than three times. Cheryl Swoops, Lisa Leslie, Lauren Jackson. A'ja is an elite company for all sports, with only Larry Bird, Will Chamberlain, Shohei Atani, Bobby or Brett Favre as the only athletes in history to win three consecutive. In just nine seasons, she's a five-time league MVP, a three-time defensive player of the year, a three-time scoring champ, a six-time block leader, a three-time champion, seven-time all-NBA, six-time all-defensive, and an eight-time all-star. With her fifth MVP, where does that rank her amongst the greats?

Chad Ochocinco Johnson (0:51)

What do you mean?

Shannon Sharpe (0:52)

She at the top. Yeah.

Chad Ochocinco Johnson (0:54)

She at the top.

Shannon Sharpe (0:55)

She at the top with me. Okay, Ocho. I mean, the imprint that she's left on the women's game, I mean, what she's accomplished, it's never been accomplished before. She's been dominant every year she's played in the league, bro. Well-deserving. Well-deserving.

Yeah. I mean, like I said, I remember in 96 when the WNBA was introduced and all the great players, they've been a lot of great players. There has not been a better player in the W than A'ja Wilson.

And they've been some great. When you look at Schwubbs and you look at Cooper, you look at Lauren Jackson, Mrs. Leslie, Candace Parker, Shemeika's Whole Claw, A'Miyah Moore, A'Simone Augustus. I mean, name them. Name them. There's been some great ones, bro. There's been some great ones. Her resume is impeccable, man, because I think the thing is that she's doing it on both ends of the court.

Chad Ochocinco Johnson (1:52)

Court, offensively and defensively, yeah.

Shannon Sharpe (1:54)

You're talking about a three-time defensive player of the year. Hey, and that was like, she really could have won it four times in a row because her and Breonna Stewart, it was close. And I think that's what pissed her off and led her to get these three, because he's like, no, that was supposed to be mine too.

Chad Ochocinco Johnson (2:11)

Yeah. They let one get away from her.

Yeah.

Shannon Sharpe (2:15)

Listen, she's definitely well deserving, but she's expanded her game too since she's been in the league.

Chad Ochocinco Johnson (2:22)

She didn't have the three ball.

Shannon Sharpe (2:23)

She didn't have the three ball when she came in, Joe. She did not have the three ball. She's added that over the course of the past couple of years, and she's been efficient, bro. She'll load on the block already. Mid-range, she's an assassin. She can do a little bit of everything, like you say, on both ends of the court. She's a two-way player defensively as far as knee-bounding, playing great D and making her teammates better, bro. She is a prototypical, a franchise player that you look to surround talent around, and she's been unbelievable.

Yeah. Guys, I mean, look, it's... And I get it. I mean, my more walk away from the game, there was something that was pulling at her that she wanted to go for social justice, and she wanted to put her career on hold while she freed a man from prison that she believed was wrongly accused. I get that. There have been a lot of players that, man, if they had just played a little bit longer, or they didn't have to have the injuries, we can't do anything about that. She made a choice.

Looking at this body of work. Now, if you want to say, I like Ma'am Morris' game, because she could, I mean, she's shooting the ball like a guy. She's jump shooting the ball.

Chad Ochocinco Johnson (3:34)

Yeah.

Shannon Sharpe (3:36)

Ma'am Morris is different, bro. But when you talk about five league MVP, three defensive player of the year, scoring block leader, a champion, two time finals MVP, a seven time WNBA, all NBA, six time all defensive, eight time All-Star, in nine seasons.

Wow. We can, okay, if she was, if this was her body of work, Joe, and she's 15 years in, like damn.

Chad Ochocinco Johnson (4:11)

Right.

Shannon Sharpe (4:11)

She's nine years in.

Chad Ochocinco Johnson (4:14)

Hey, she got a long way to go.

Shannon Sharpe (4:16)

Yeah, she just turned 30 Over half her career, she's been the MVP of the league.

Over half her career, she's been the block leader. Over half her career, she's been an all defensive player, an all NBA player, an all star.

Chad Ochocinco Johnson (4:32)

Right.

Shannon Sharpe (4:36)

You got them now. You're going to run them down all day. We'll be here. Like I said, I look, Cynthia Cooper and Charles Whoop on the same team seemed like it was unfair.