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Longevity and consistency are often looked at when evaluating the all-time greats and rightfully so. But here’s a look at the WNBA players with the best proven capabilities in terms of putting up gaudy stats even if they only did it once.

To get each player’s “monster stat” score we added together their single-season career-best averages for each of the five major categories (points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks). It didn’t matter if the career bests for different categories happened in different seasons. Assist averages were multiplied by 1.5 before being added to the total. There was a requirement of at least 10 games played in the season in which a career-best was counted.

We also included the ages of each player to give you an idea of which ones could be poised to improve on their score with a monster 2021.

1) Candace Parker

Chicago Sky

Monster stat score: 44.4

Age: 35

Parker averaged 6.3 assists over 16 games in 2015. That’s what put her over the top on this list. Always known for her versatility, the two-time MVP has also averaged over 10 rebounds twice and over 20 points once.

Seattle Storm v Los Angeles Sparks — Candace Parker.

2) Diana Taurasi

Phoenix Mercury

Monster stat score: 43.1

Age: 38

Taurasi’s 25.3 points per game in 2006 still stands as the best single-season scoring average in WNBA history. She is also an excellent distributor with a career-best of 6.2 assists per game (2013). Despite being a guard her decent career highs of 5.7 rebounds per game (2009) and 1.4 blocks per game (twice) raised her score even higher.

Phoenix Mercury New Uniform Portraits — Diana Taurasi.

3) Tina Charles

Washington Mystics

Monster stat score: 42

Age: 32

Charles’ scoring and rebounding numbers obviously put her high on this list. She also notched 3.8 assists per game (1.1 higher than her second-best effort) in 2016 and had 1.8 blocks per game in 2011.

Indiana Fever v New York Liberty — Tina Charles.

4) Maya Moore

Minnesota Lynx

Monster stat score: 41.2

Age: 31

Status: sitting out season

No word of retirement yet for one of the most versatile scorers to ever play the game. Moore can fill out the rest of the stat sheet, too, averaging career bests of 8.1 rebounds (2014), 4.2 assists (2016) and 1.9 steals (twice).

Minnesota Lynx v Los Angeles Sparks — Maya Moore.

5) Breanna Stewart

Seattle Storm

Monster stat score: 40.1

Age: 26

Though not the reigning WNBA MVP, Stewart is in the middle of her prime and is the best player in the world. Can she climb this list in 2021 with a scoring average greater than her career-best of 21.8 (2018)?

6) Liz Cambage

Las Vegas Aces

Monster stat score: 39.4

Age: 29

Cambage is the queen of short-term monster stats, having once scored a WNBA-record 53 points in a game. During that 2018 season she averaged 23 points per game. Her career-bests of 9.7 rebounds per game (2018) and 2.4 blocks per game (2013) also helped her out.

Washington Mystics v Las Vegas Aces - Game Three — Liz Cambage.