{"id":15481,"date":"2025-06-26T05:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/15481\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T05:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:35:09","slug":"aja-wilson-becomes-fastest-in-wnba-history-to-5000-points-aces-beat-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/15481\/","title":{"rendered":"A&#8217;ja Wilson becomes fastest in WNBA history to 5,000 points. Aces beat the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson scored 22 points and became the fastest player in WNBA history to 5,000 points as the Las Vegas Aces beat the Connecticut Sun 85-59 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson made a driving <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LVAces\/status\/1938066204511637800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:left-hand layup;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">left-hand layup<\/a> with about four minutes left in the first quarter to top the 5,000-point plateau in just 238 games. She has 5,015 career points. Breanna Stewart needed 242 games to score 5,000.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut (2-13) has lost seven in a row overall and six straight to the Aces, who beat the Sun <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/aces-sun-score-161d31f03f7728866fd2762de14e5ea0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:87-62;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">87-62<\/a> on May 20.<\/p>\n<p>Jackie Young scored 20 points for the Aces (7-7) and Chelsea Gray added 15 points, seven rebounds, six assists and three blocks. Jewell Loyd scored 13 points. Young, Gray and Loyd each hit three of Las Vegas\u2019 11 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>LIBERTY 81, VALKYRIES 78<\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Sabrina Ionescu converted seven free throws in the final two minutes and made a key steal with 26 seconds left, Breanna Stewart had 23 points and 10 rebounds, and New York held off Golden State.<\/p>\n<p>Ionescu struggled to find her shooting rhythm returning from a neck injury and wound up 1 of 11 for 11 points in her Bay Area homecoming not far from where she grew up in the East Bay suburb of Walnut Creek. She regularly attended Warriors games.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Ionescu was 0 for 5 at halftime missing all four of her 3s. She finally connected on her first field goal, a 3-pointer, with 9 minutes left<\/p>\n<p>Kate Martin hit a tying 3-pointer with 4:12 remaining and put the Valkyries ahead on a 3 at the 1:59 mark before Ionescu\u2019s free throws. Martin\u2019s 3 with 12 seconds to go made it a one-point game but Martin and Kayla Thornton missed two late 3s.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart scored 21 of her points by halftime and Kennedy Burke added 20 points off the bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson scored 22 points and became the fastest player in WNBA history to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[2341,5336,15538,15535,2472,15536,15537,15539,15541,15540,4144,15534,62,67,132,68,232,1516],"class_list":{"0":"post-15481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-aja-wilson","9":"tag-breanna-stewart","10":"tag-career-points","11":"tag-chelsea-gray","12":"tag-connecticut-sun","13":"tag-jackie-young","14":"tag-jewell-loyd","15":"tag-kate-martin","16":"tag-kayla-thornton","17":"tag-kennedy-burke","18":"tag-las-vegas-aces","19":"tag-sabrina-ionescu","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-wnba","25":"tag-wnba-history"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114748045684461737","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15481","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=15481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}