2021 Major WNBA Awards Watch – Week 14

This is the last week of the regular season and next week, I’ll unveil ALL of my FINAL choices for all of the major WNBA Awards. From week 1 to now, I’ve been tracking it all. You can read the previous week here. I also wrote about my ballot choices for Her Hoop Stats which you can read here. *Note – for HHS, I only wrote about the major awards and did not include ALL of the awards, so you can read all of that here next week*

Most Valuable Player: Jonquel Jones – Connecticut Sun

Defensive Player of the Year: Sylvia Fowles – Minnesota Lynx

Most Improved Player of the Year: Brionna Jones – Connecticut Sun

Sixth Woman of the Year: Kelsey Plum – Las Vegas Aces

Rookie of the Year: Michaela Onyenwere – New York Liberty

Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award: Sue Bird – Seattle Storm

Coach of the Year: Curt Miller – Connecticut Sun

Executive of the Year: Cheryl Reeve – Minnesota Lynx

All – WNBA First Team (*not position based)

• F/C – Jonquel Jones – Connecticut Sun
• F – Breanna Stewart – Seattle Storm
• F/C – Brittney Griner – Phoenix Mercury
• F – A’ja Wilson – Las Vegas Aces
• G – Skylar Diggins-Smith – Phoenix Mercury

All-WNBA Second Team (*not position based)

• F – Dewanna Bonner – Connecticut Sun
• F – Napheesa Collier – Minnesota Lynx
• C – Sylvia Fowles – Minnesota Lynx
• F – Tina Charles – Washington Mystics
• F – Candace Parker – Chicago Sky

All-WNBA Defense Team (not position based)

• Sylvia Fowles
• Brittney Griner
• Brittney Sykes – LA Sparks
• Ariel Atkins – Washington Mystics
• Briann January – Connecticut Sun

All – Rookie Team

• Michaela Onyenwere
• DiDi Richards – New York Liberty
• DiJonai Carrington – Connecticut Sun
• Aari McDonald – Atlanta Dream
• Awak Kuier – Dallas Wings