Best WNBA Player ESPY Award


The Best WNBA Player ESPY Award is an award given at the ESPY Awards show. It has been presented annually since 1998 to the Women's National Basketball Association player who has been voted the best in the preceding year before the ceremony. Beginning in 2003, the winner has been chosen by online voting, before that, determination of the winners was made by an panel of experts.
The inaugural winner was Cynthia Cooper, who would go on to win three consecutive awards. Three awards is the record, a mark also held by Lauren Jackson, Lisa Leslie, Diana Taurasi, and Candace Parker. Only Cooper and Taurasi had their three wins in consecutive years. All winners other than Jackson, who is Australian, have been American. Winners have played all five of the standard Basketball positions, the most honored position is power forward, players playing power forward have won seven awards. The award wasn't awarded in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

List of winners

Player was a member of the winning team in the WNBA Finals
Player was a member of the losing team in the WNBA Finals
† WNBA Finals MVP