“When I found out I was really emotional, teary-eyed,” Jones said. Breanna Stewart of Seattle was third, followed by Minnesota’s Sylvia Fowles and Washington’s Tina Charles. Phoenix center Brittney Griner garnered the other first-place ballot and finished a distant second. Jones received all but one of the 49 first-place votes from a national media panel. Connecticut’s Curt Miller was chosen as the league’s Coach of the Year for the second time. She averaged 19.4 points, 11.2 rebounds, and 1.3 blocked shots to earn her first MVP award. Jonquel Jones led a sweep of three major WNBA awards for Connecticut, earning MVP honors hours before the Sun opened their best-of-five playoff series against Chicago on Tuesday.
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