Top 20 WNBA players countdown, ranked for the 2018 season: Part 2

LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 29: Candace Parker #3 of the Los Angeles Sparks plays defense against Maya Moore #23 of the Minnesota Lynx in Game Three of the 2017 WNBA Finals on September 29, 2017 at the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2017 NBAE (Photos by David Sherman/NBAE via Getty Images) /

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MINNEAPOLIS, MN – May 16: Sylvia Fowles #34 of the Minnesota Lynx poses for a portrait during 2018 Media Day on May 16, 2017 at Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2018 NBAE (Photo by David Sherman/NBAE via Getty Images) /

2. Sylvia Fowles

Well, she did it: Cheryl Reeve traded for Sylvia Fowles and made a surefire Hall of Famer even better. Fowles put up the best true shooting percentage of her career, 69.1 percent, in a career in which she’s already the WNBA leader in true shooting percentage. She blocks shots, she defends, she’s a top-five all-time rebounder, she is almost certainly the finest true five to ever play the game, and she’s drinking the potion that all Minnesota Lynx players drink to make them somehow age in reverse. She won the MVP in 2017, and she’s on the shortlist of players who will win it in 2018. And she hasn’t even expanded her shot to beyond the three-point line. She’s just, exquisitely, uniquely, Sylvia Fowles, and just incredible at being her.

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