{"id":1028091,"date":"2026-08-27T20:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T20:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1028091\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T20:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T20:31:16","slug":"las-vegas-aces-nalyssa-smith-out-for-season-with-leg-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1028091\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Aces&#8217; NaLyssa Smith out for season with leg injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 The Las Vegas Aces said Thursday that forward NaLyssa Smith is out for the season with a left leg injury, dealing a huge blow to the defending WNBA champion\u2019s repeat hopes. <\/p>\n<p>Smith suffered the non-contact injury at the 3:15 mark of the third quarter in Sunday\u2019s <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/aces-tempo-score-07c1619724e55abd7f32e970c181b790\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">88-78 win<\/a> over the the Toronto Tempo. <\/p>\n<p>Smith has averaged 11.8 points and 6.4 rebounds over 37 games this season and was leading the league in field goal percentage at 63.8%.<\/p>\n<p>The loss of Smith will put a lot more on the shoulders of Aces star A\u2019ja Wilson, who is in the mix to win her fifth MVP trophy while averaging 26 points and and two blocks per game this season. <\/p>\n<p>The Aces entered Thursday with a 26-13 record, the third-best mark in the Western Conference behind Minnesota (31-8) and Golden State (27-11). <\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See AP\u2019s full sports coverage here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 The Las Vegas Aces said Thursday that forward NaLyssa Smith is out for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1028092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49],"tags":[2341,2733,4144,8198,617,11290,62,76705,67,132,68,232,22795,12860],"class_list":["post-1028091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-aja-wilson","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-nalyssa-smith","tag-nevada","tag-nv-state-wire","tag-sports","tag-toronto-tempo","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-basketball","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117169375726467144","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1028092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}