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New York Liberty<\/a> (21-11, 11-3 Eastern Conference) at Las Vegas Aces<\/a> (18-14, 11-8 Western Conference)<\/p>\n Las Vegas; Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Aces -2; over\/under is 170<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Las Vegas Aces hosts the New York Liberty after A’ja Wilson scored 32 points in the Las Vegas Aces’ 94-86 victory over the Connecticut Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Aces are 10-5 in home games. Las Vegas ranks fifth in the Western Conference in team defense, allowing 82.9 points while holding opponents to 44.3% shooting.<\/p>\n The Liberty are 8-7 in road games. New York is second in the WNBA<\/a> with 27.3 defensive rebounds per game led by Jonquel Jones<\/a> averaging 7.3.<\/p>\n Las Vegas’ average of 8.4 made 3-pointers per game this season is the same per game average that New York allows. New York averages 9.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.0 more made shots on average than the 7.8 per game Las Vegas gives up.<\/p>\n The teams play for the third time this season. The Liberty won the last matchup 87-78 on July 9. Sabrina Ionescu<\/a> scored 28 points to help lead the Liberty to the victory.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Wilson is shooting 49.0% and averaging 22.2 points for the Aces. Jackie Young<\/a> is averaging 17.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Natasha Cloud<\/a> is averaging 10.1 points and 5.6 assists for the Liberty. Ionescu is averaging 21.5 points and 5.7 rebounds while shooting 46.3% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Aces: 7-3, averaging 85.1 points, 35.1 rebounds, 20.3 assists, 8.4 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 43.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 84.7 points per game.<\/p>\n Liberty: 5-5, averaging 86.1 points, 33.2 rebounds, 22.9 assists, 7.0 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 46.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 85.8 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Aces: Cheyenne Parker-Tyus<\/a>: out (personal).<\/p>\n Liberty: Breanna Stewart<\/a>: out (leg), Isabelle Harrison<\/a>: out (concussion protocol), Nyara Sabally<\/a>: out (knee).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press New York Liberty (21-11, 11-3 Eastern Conference) at Las Vegas Aces (18-14, 11-8 Western Conference) Las…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-141889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115020469514038296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141889","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=141889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}