Breanna Stewart earned the WNBA’s Most Valuable Player award for the second time in her career Tuesday in a very close race.
All the WNBA awards are voted on by a 60-person national media panel and had them vote for their top five choices for the MVP award. Players were awarded 10 points for a first-place vote, seven points for a second-place vote, five points for a third-place vote, three points for a fourth-place vote and one point for a fifth-place vote.star forward was impressed with the way the other two top candidates played this season.
The 29-year-old Stewart, who also won the award in 2018, made the decision to move closer to home and come toas a free agent this past offseason. The move has paid immediate dividends for her and the Liberty. The AP Player of the Year helped the team finish the regular season with the second-best record and was the WNBA's second leading scorer, averaging a career-best 23 points a game. She scored over 40 points three times this season, including 45 in her home debut.
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