Will Sylvia Fowles win MVP? WNBA plans "major award announcement'' for this afternoon.

Logic would suggest the league is about to give out the MVP award to Lynx center Sylvia Fowles, who has been the favorite for the award for much of the season.

September 14, 2017 at 4:38PM
Minnesota Lynx center Sylvia Fowles
Minnesota Lynx center Sylvia Fowles (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The WNBA just announced that a major award will be presented at a press conference at 5 p.m. at Williams Arena, two hours before Game 2 of the league semifinal series between Minnesota and Washington.

Wonder what it will be?

Really, though, I don't.

Logic would suggest the league is about to give the MVP award to Sylvia Fowles, who has been the presumptive favorite for much of the season and has already earned the Associated Press player of the year honor.

Challenged by Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve before the season started to be great, Fowles was. She led the league in field goal accuracy (.655, the fourth-best in league history), was fifth in scoring (18.9) and second in both rebounding (10.4) and blocks (2.0).

Fowles would be the second Lynx player to win the award, the first being Maya Moore in 2014.

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Kent Youngblood has covered sports for the Minnesota Star Tribune for more than 20 years.

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