{"id":155440,"date":"2025-08-18T10:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T10:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/155440\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T10:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T10:07:09","slug":"wilson-aces-roll-to-seventh-consecutive-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/155440\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson, Aces roll to seventh consecutive victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Las Vegas Aces rolled to a seventh straight win on Sunday, defeating the Dallas Wings 106-87, thanks to an MVP performance from A&#8217;ja Wilson and some deadly 3-point shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson, the reigning and three-time WNBA MVP, poured in 34 points on 11-of-16 shooting along with eight rebounds, three blocks and two steals and the Aces (21-14) matched a season high with 18 3-pointers in their ninth victory in 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Kierstan Bell scored 18 points and drained a career-high six 3-pointers on seven attempts as Las Vegas shot 52.9 per cent from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n<p>NaLyssa Smith had 14 points, Chelsea Gray had 10 points and a career-high-tying 14 assists, while Jewell Loyd chipped in 12 points and made 4 of 8 from 3-point range for the Aces, who scored 23 points off 13 Dallas turnovers.<\/p>\n<p>The Wings (9-26) lost for the seventh time in eight games, wasting a career-high 23-point performance from Maddy Siegrist, who made 11 of 15 shots.<\/p>\n<p>Paige Bueckers was the only other Dallas player to score in double figures, tallying 18 points, five rebounds and four assists.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">M&#8217;V3 STATUS <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_ajawilson22?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@_ajawilson22<\/a> has the most games with 20+ PTS, 5+ REB, 2+ STL &amp; 2+ BLK in league history!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WNBA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WNBA<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ALLINLV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ALLINLV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S6uNaGYx1K\">pic.twitter.com\/S6uNaGYx1K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Las Vegas Aces (@LVAces) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LVAces\/status\/1957187159754182796?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Mitchell, Fever rally past Sun<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kelsey Mitchell sparked a furious second-half rally for the Indiana Fever in a 99-93 overtime win over the Connecticut Sun.<\/p>\n<p>Michell scored 34 of her career-high-tying 38 points after halftime for the Fever (19-16), who trailed by 21 points in the opening minutes of the third quarter. They were still down by 14 at the 6:25 mark of the fourth before going on a 17-3 run over the next four minutes to tie the score at 77-77 on a pair of free throws by Odyssey Sims. Alliyah Boston then sent the game to overtime on a jumper with 21 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n<p>In OT, Mitchell scored all of Indiana&#8217;s points during a 10-4 run to open the period \u2013 including a pair of 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell finished 11 of 12 from the free throw line, Sims scored 19 and Boston added 14 points, 13 rebounds and five assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Fever played most of the game without guard Sophie Cunningham after she injured her knee early in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Marina Mabrey led the WNBA-worst Sun (6-27) with 27 points, while Tina Charles had 21 points and six boards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mercury spoil special night for Storm, Bird<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alyssa Thomas recorded her fifth triple-double of the season, leading the Phoenix Mercury to an 85-82 win over the Seattle Storm.<\/p>\n<p>The game took place after the Storm unveiled a statue outside Climate Pledge Arena of Sue Bird, making her the first WNBA player to receive that honor. Bird, a 13-time All-Star, played 20 seasons for the Storm and helped lead them to four WNBA championships.<\/p>\n<p>Bird attended the game Sunday night, but Thomas stole the show on the court.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas finished with 19 points, 10 rebounds, 11 assists and three steals while shooting 7 for 12 from the field. Her five triple-doubles this season are as many as the rest of the league combined.<\/p>\n<p>Satou Sabally had 11 points and 10 rebounds for the Mercury (20-13), while Kahleah Copper finished with 17 points.<\/p>\n<p>Nneka Ogwumike led the Storm with 24 points and eight assists, while Skylar Diggins had 14 points.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle (17-18) is just 2-8 in its last 10 games and is barely clinging to the eighth and final playoff spot, a half-game ahead of the Los Angeles Sparks (16-18).<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Las Vegas Aces rolled to a seventh straight win on Sunday, defeating the Dallas Wings 106-87, thanks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":155441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[3161,1926,62,90720,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-155440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-social","9":"tag-sport","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-sporty","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115049217674658199","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155440","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=155440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}