On the evening of the first Monday in May, WNBA super star A’ja Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces traded in the tunnel walk for the 2026 Met Gala carpet celebrating “ Fashion Is Art” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “This is my first Met; the second one I’ve been invited to, so I’m blessed for the opportunity. We had a pre-season game last night; just stopped by New York on the first Monday of May, and will be right back out there tomorrow because our season starts. We get our [championship] rings this weekend. It’s an exciting week,” Wilson told WWD while getting ready at The Plaza hotel for her first Met Gala , as both attendee and host committee member. “I released a shoe a couple days ago,” she added of her new Nike A’Two pink sneaker. “It’s super cool just having the A’Two forming its own brand — it’s so unapologetically me.…