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LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson had 32 points, 12 rebounds and five blocks to help the Las Vegas Aces<\/a> win their eighth straight game, 74-72 victory over the Atlanta Dream<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n Wilson, who entered averaging 28.4 points and 14.4 rebounds in her last five games, secured her 116th career double-double \u2014 and 33rd with at least 30 points and 10 rebounds. It was Wilson’s third straight 30-point game and third career game with 30-plus points, 10-plus rebounds and five-plus blocks \u2014 the most in WNBA<\/a> history, surpassing Brittney Griner<\/a> and Candace Parker<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jackie Young<\/a> added 16 points and Chelsea Gray<\/a> had eight points, seven rebounds and 11 assists for Las Vegas (22-14). Wilson, who was 12 of 24 from the field, became the youngest and fastest player in WNBA history to reach 2,000 career made field goals.<\/p>\n Rhyne Howard<\/a> had 19 points and six assists for led Atlanta (22-13), which had won seven of its last eight games. Allisha Gray<\/a> and Griner each added 16 points.<\/p>\n Atlanta scored the final five points of the third quarter and the opening six of the fourth for a 67-57 lead. But the Aces scored the next 13 points to take a 70-67 lead on Jewell Loyd\u2019s 3-pointer.<\/p>\n The Dream went nearly six minutes without scoring in the fourth.<\/p>\n Howard sank a contested 3-pointer with 1:37 left to tie it at 72-all before Wilson answered with a jumper at the other end. <\/p>\n The Dream made a defensive stop and called a timeout with 15.9 seconds left, but Howard missed a floater in the lane and the Aces secured the rebound. <\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n AP WNBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/p>\n \n What did you think of this story?\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson had 32 points, 12 rebounds and five blocks to help…\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-160328","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\/115059508270046234","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160328","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=160328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160328\/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=160328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}