, to the most improved player of the regular season. The winner is selected by a panel of sportswriters throughout the
, each of whom casts a vote for first, second and third place selections. Each first-place vote is worth five points; each second-place vote is worth three points; and each third-place vote is worth one point. The player with the highest point total, regardless of the number of first-place votes, wins the award.
No player has won the award more than once. In
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| 2000 The 2000 WNBA Season was the Women's National Basketball Association's fourth season. The 2000 season saw four expansion teams join the league, the Indiana Fever, Miami Sol, Portland Fire, and Seattle Storm...
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Tari Phillips Tari L. Phillips is a professional basketball player. She currently plays with Acer ERG Priolo, an Italian A1 team based in Priolo Gargallo, Sicily...
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New York LibertyThe New York Liberty is a Women's National Basketball Association team based in New York City. They are one of the eight original WNBA teams that began to see action in 1997, as well one of the most successful teams in WNBA history. Despite making the WNBA playoffs almost every season and...
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| 2001 The 2001 WNBA Season was the Women's National Basketball Association's fifth season. The season ended with the Los Angeles Sparks winning their first WNBA championship.-Regular season standings:Eastern ConferenceWestern Conference...
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Janeth Arcain Janeth dos Santos Arcain is a retired Brazilian professional basketball player. She played for the Houston Comets in the Women's National Basketball Association from 1997-2005.-WNBA career:...
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Houston Comets The Houston Comets was a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Houston, Texas, United States. Formed in 1997, the team is one of the original eight WNBA teams and won all four championships in the first four years of the league's existence. The Comets were the first dynasty of the...
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| 2002 The 2002 WNBA Season was the Women's National Basketball Association's sixth season. The season ended with the Los Angeles Sparks winning their second WNBA championship.-Regular season standings:Eastern ConferenceWestern Conference...
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Coco Miller Colleen Mary “Coco” Miller is a professional basketball player in the WNBA. She is the identical twin sister of fellow WNBA player Kelly Miller.-Early years:...
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Washington MysticsThe Washington Mystics is a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. They started play in 1998, the second year of the WNBA and are one of the WNBA's first expansion franchises...
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| 2003 The 2003 WNBA Season was the Women's National Basketball Association's seventh season. It was first season in which team either folded or relocated. The Orlando Miracle relocated to Connecticut and became the Connecticut Sun, the Utah Starzz relocated to San Antonio, Texas and became the San...
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Michelle SnowDonnette Jé-Michelle Snow is an American professional basketball player from the WNBA. She currently plays the center position for the Atlanta Dream.-High school years:...
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Houston Comets The Houston Comets was a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Houston, Texas, United States. Formed in 1997, the team is one of the original eight WNBA teams and won all four championships in the first four years of the league's existence. The Comets were the first dynasty of the...
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| 2004 The 2004 WNBA Season was the Women's National Basketball Association's eighth season. The league was decreased by one team as the Cleveland Rockers folded after the 2003 season.-Regular season standings:Eastern ConferenceWestern Conference...
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Charlotte StingThe Charlotte Sting was a Women's National Basketball Association franchise based in Charlotte, North Carolina and it was one of the league's eight original teams. The team folded on January 3, 2007....
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| Wendy Palmer Wendy Palmer , is a former professional basketball player in the WNBA, most recently with the Seattle Storm. Her primary position is forward.-College years:...
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Connecticut SunThe Connecticut Sun is a professional basketball team based in Uncasville, Connecticut, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2003 WNBA season began. The Sun was the first WNBA franchise not to be owned by an NBA owner;...
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| 2005 -Regular season standings:Eastern ConferenceWestern Conference- Season award winners :-Playoffs:-External links:***...
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Nicole Powell Nicole Kristen Powell is a basketball player who was a standout at Stanford University and now plays for the Sacramento Monarchs in the WNBA. She will play again for Fenerbahçe Istanbul for next season in Europe....
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Sacramento MonarchsThe Sacramento Monarchs is a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Sacramento, California. The team is one of the WNBA's eight original franchises and was noted early on for standout players Ticha Penicheiro, Ruthie Bolton and Yolanda Griffith.While the Monarchs have been one of...
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| 2006 The 2006 WNBA Season was the Women's National Basketball Association's tenth season. The league added one team the Chicago Sky. The Sky was the first expansion team since 2000 when the Indiana Fever, Miami Sol, Portland Fire, and the Seattle Storm came to the WNBA. On April 5 the WNBA held their...
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Erin BuescherErin Perperoglou is an American professional basketball player for the San Antonio Silver Stars of the Women's National Basketball Association...
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Sacramento MonarchsThe Sacramento Monarchs is a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Sacramento, California. The team is one of the WNBA's eight original franchises and was noted early on for standout players Ticha Penicheiro, Ruthie Bolton and Yolanda Griffith.While the Monarchs have been one of...
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| 2007 The 2007 WNBA Season was the Women's National Basketball Association's 11th season. On January 3, 2007 The Charlotte Sting folded. Three months later on April 4, the WNBA held their annual draft in Cleveland, Ohio. Lindsey Harding of Duke University was selected number one by the Phoenix Mercury....
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Janel McCarville Janel McCarville is an American professional basketball player. She currently plays center for the WNBA's New York Liberty.-High school years:...
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New York LibertyThe New York Liberty is a Women's National Basketball Association team based in New York City. They are one of the eight original WNBA teams that began to see action in 1997, as well one of the most successful teams in WNBA history. Despite making the WNBA playoffs almost every season and...
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| 2008 The 2008 WNBA Season was the 12th season of the Women's National Basketball Association. It was the first WNBA season ever with a franchise in Atlanta as the Dream were announced in late 2007....
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Ebony Hoffman Ebony Vernice Hoffman is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Fever in the WNBA. She has also played with Fenerbahçe İstanbul in Turkey, Polisportiva Ares Ribera in Italy and TEO Vilnius in Lithuania.She was selected by the Indiana Fever as the ninth overall pick in the 2004...
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Indiana FeverThe Indiana Fever is a professional women's basketball team that plays in the Women's National Basketball Association . The Fever are based in Indiana's capital and largest city, Indianapolis. Their first season of play in the league was in 2000. The Fever play at Conseco Fieldhouse, located in...
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| 2009 The 2009 WNBA Season is the 13th season of the Women's National Basketball Association. It is the first WNBA season ever without a Houston franchise, the Comets having folded in December 2008...
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Crystal Langhorne Crystal Langhorne is an American basketball player. She played for the University of Maryland Terrapins. In 2008 she was drafted by the Washington Mystics of the WNBA....
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Washington MysticsThe Washington Mystics is a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. They started play in 1998, the second year of the WNBA and are one of the WNBA's first expansion franchises...
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