Las Vegas Aces halfway A'ja Wilson, right, joins defender Chelsea Gray (12) and different players connected the tribunal aft a 84-68 nonaccomplishment to the Indiana Fever during the 2nd fractional of an WNBA hoops crippled astatine T-Mobile Arena Sunday, July 5, 2026. Wilson did not play owed to an ankle injury. Photo by: Steve Marcus
By Las Vegas Sun Staff (contact)
Sunday, July 12, 2026 | 2 a.m.
Las Vegas Aces prima A’ja Wilson volition beryllium featured successful a caller ESPN docuseries debuting aboriginal this month, offering a behind-the-scenes look astatine 1 of the WNBA’s biggest names during a ascendant agelong of her career.
“Life successful the W,” a six-part series, premieres July 24 connected ESPN platforms to coincide with the league’s All-Star weekend. The amusement follows Wilson on with Minnesota’s Napheesa Collier and Phoenix’s DeWanna Bonner done the 2026 season, focusing connected their lives connected and disconnected the court.
“A batch of radical spot what we bash connected the court, but this is simply a accidental to amusement everything that comes with it: the work, the sacrifice, the joyousness and the sisterhood,” Wilson said. “I’m truthful arrogant to beryllium portion of this task and let viewers to link with who we are beyond basketball.”
Collier and Bonner besides emphasized the off-court stories the bid highlights.
“The maturation of women’s hoops has been unthinkable to see, and it’s important that fans get to cognize the radical helping thrust that momentum,” Collier said. “This bid gives viewers a accidental to link with our stories successful a existent way, and I anticipation it inspires the adjacent procreation of players and fans.”
“Basketball has been specified a large portion of my life, but it’s lone 1 portion of who I am,” Bonner said. “This bid shows the moments that substance astir to maine disconnected the tribunal too, particularly the clip I walk with my family. I’m grateful to stock that broadside of my travel and springiness fans a look astatine what keeps maine grounded passim a agelong season.”
Lindsay Rovegno, ESPN’s vice president and enforcement shaper for ESPN Originals, said the web wanted to showcase “three of the game’s best” with “uniquely compelling journeys.”
Wilson, the WNBA’s lone four-time MVP, is successful the mediate of different standout twelvemonth for the Aces. She leads the league successful scoring astatine 25.6 points per game, is tied for archetypal successful blocks astatine 2.0 and ranks among the apical rebounders astatine 9.0 per game.
Now successful her ninth play with Las Vegas, Wilson helped pb the franchise to 3 titles successful the past 4 years, including a 2025 title tally successful which she became the archetypal subordinate successful league past to triumph MVP, Defensive Player of the Year, Finals MVP and the scoring rubric successful the aforesaid season.
The 6-foot-4 center, drafted No. 1 wide successful 2018 retired of South Carolina, has spent her full vocation with the Aces and was re-signed to a supermax woody earlier this year.
The bid arrives arsenic the Aces, perennial contenders successful the Western Conference, proceed their propulsion for different title. Wilson, an All-Star for the eighth time, earned Western Conference Player of the Month honors successful some May and June.
All six episodes volition beryllium disposable July 24 connected the ESPN App for ESPN Select program subscribers. Episodes 1 and 2 volition aerial astatine 7 p.m. July 24 connected ESPN2 , followed by Episodes 1-4 astatine 2 p.m. July 25, and each six episodes astatine 2 p.m. July 26.
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