{"id":135984,"date":"2025-08-11T03:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135984\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T03:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:45:11","slug":"wilson-records-historic-30-20-night-in-las-vegas-aces-win-over-connecticut-sum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135984\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson records historic 30-20 night in Las Vegas Aces win over Connecticut Sum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 A&#8217;ja Wilson scored 32 points and tied a career-high with 20 rebounds to become the first player in WNBA history with 30-plus points and at least 20 rebounds in a game as the Las Vegas Aces beat the Connecticut Sun 94-86 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson grabbed almost as many boards as Connecticut had as a team (23) as Las Vegas (18-14) won its season-best fourth straight.<\/p>\n<p>Jackie Young scored 21 points and reserves Jewell Loyd and Dana Evans scored 12 and 10 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Marina Mabrey scored 22 points, Saniya Rivers had 17 and Leila Lacan 13 for Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>The Sun built a 31-27 lead at the end of the first quarter and extended their lead to 45-33 with with 5:46 left before halftime on Tina Charles&#8217; jump shot. But the Aces outscored Connecticut 12-0 to close the half to tie it 45-all at the half.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea Gray made two free throws to put Las Vegas ahead 51-50 with 7:18 to play and it led for the remainder of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut (5-25) has now lost four straight.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Las Vegas Aces guard Jewell Loyd (24) drives against Connecticut...\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"770\" height=\"433.125\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754883911_696_image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas Aces guard Jewell Loyd (24) drives against Connecticut Sun guard Bria Hartley (14) during the first half of a WNBA basketball game Sunday, Aug. 10, 2025, in Las Vegas. Credit: AP\/Steve Marcus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 A&#8217;ja Wilson scored 32 points and tied a career-high with 20 rebounds to become the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":135985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[2472,4144,62,67,132,68,10190,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-135984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-connecticut-sun","9":"tag-las-vegas-aces","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wires-bot","15":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115008079359919183","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135984","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=135984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}