During Friday's Craig Carton Show, Carton took exception to Wilson stating, "15-year-old A'ja wasn't sitting up here dreaming about being a 5-time MVP.She wasn't dreaming about being a 3-time champion.
She was dreaming about surviving this world.""It's a bold-faced lie," Carton stated.A'ja Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces places a tiara over her 2026 WNBA MVP trophy as she arrives at a news conference at Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las Vegas, Nev., on Oct.8, 2026.
Wilson captured her third consecutive and fifth career MVP award.She won previous MVP honors in the 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2025 seasons.
(Getty Images)A'JA WILSON WINS RECORD FIFTH MVP AS FIRST THREE-PEAT IN WNBA HISTORY STRENGTHENS ALL-TIME GREATNESS CASE"You went to Heathwood Hall [Episcopal School]," Carton continued."That's a private school, Clarence."To add a little background to Carton's comments, if you were to put your child through Heathwood from first grade through high school today, it would cost almost $260,000.
That's how braindead and tone deaf these comments by Wilson really are."Why is A'ja Wilson cosplaying like she grew up in the streets of South Carolina? Or Poor? Or Disenfranchised? Or without a mom and a dad there to raise her without love?," Carton asked."The exact opposite is actually true," Carton said.Those are the facts.Wilson grew up having a fairly privileged life in a stable home with her mother, Eva Rakes Wilson, and her father, Roscoe C.
Wilson Jr., who was a former professional basketball player in Europe.They put her through an expensive private school, a privilege many of her fellow WNBA players, white players included, weren't allotted."Is it insulting to the other women of the WNBA and other people in this country, who have had that exact plight when you grew up in a life of luxury," Carton asked.A'ja Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces wins her fifth WNBA MVP award on Oct.
8, 2026, at Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las Vegas, Nev.(NBAE via Getty Images)HERE IS THE REAL REASON WHY THEY H...