Lauren Jackson named in the WNBA’s best ever top 25 players

Lauren Jackson is Australia’s greatest basketballer of all-time – now she gets the chance to become the WNBA’s GOAT.

Jackson, who will this week become the first Australian player inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, has been named in a star-studded list of the WNBA’s top 25 players to celebrate the league’s 25th anniversary season.

The two-time WNBA champion and three-time MVP joins a list hailed by the league as a “collection of the 25 greatest and most influential players in WNBA history”, with players selected based on their overall contributions.

The WNBA started with 72 nominees based on factors such as on-court performance, leadership, sportsmanship and community service. Votes from a panel of media and women’s basketball pioneers and advocates decided the list.

WNBA fans will be able to pick their favourite player as the greatest in WNBA history in the “Vote for the GOAT” campaign starting on Monday through to the end of the regular season on September 19.

Fans can vote via the WNBA‘s website and app or via Twitter. The winner will be revealed during the WNBA finals in October.

Jackson took to her social media to express her gratitude at being named in the WNBA’s top 25 best ever players.

“What an honour – thank you Seattle Storm,” said Jackson, a No.1 overall pick in the 2001 WNBA draft and just one of three players to be named MVP three times (Sheryl Swoopes and Lisa Leslie the others) and the first and only international player in WNBA history to be named MVP.