WNBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award

The Women's National Basketball Association Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) award given since the league's inaugural season.

Women's National Basketball Association awards and honors
Championship
Individual awards
Honors

During the first four years of the league, the Houston Comets' Cynthia Cooper won the award four consecutive times. The Los Angeles Sparks' Lisa Leslie won back-to-back in the subsequent two seasons. No other players have won the award in consecutive seasons, but Diana Taurasi, Sylvia Fowles, and Breanna Stewart have won the award twice. While some teams have won multiple championship since the dynasty years of the Comets and the Sparks, the match-up usually resulted in different MVPs. For example, in the Detroit Shock's three wins over six years, three different players won the award. As of the 2019, there have been two non-American Finals MVPs – Lauren Jackson of Australia (2010) and Emma Meesseman of Belgium (2019).

Winners
Denotes player who is still active in the WNBA
Inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
Player (X) Denotes the number of times the player has won
Team (X) Denotes the number of times a player from this team has won

Multi-time winners
Player Team(s) No. Years
Cynthia Cooper Houston Comets 4 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
Lisa Leslie Los Angeles Sparks 2 2001, 2002
Diana Taurasi Phoenix Mercury 2009, 2014
Sylvia Fowles Minnesota Lynx 2015, 2017
Breanna Stewart Seattle Storm 2018, 2020

See also

Footnotes

    References
    • "WNBA history". WNBA.com. WNBA. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
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