{"id":164507,"date":"2025-08-21T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/164507\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:00:11","slug":"the-aces-take-on-the-mercury-in-hopes-of-second-consecutive-win-against-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/164507\/","title":{"rendered":"The Aces take on the Mercury in hopes of second consecutive win against Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (KTNV) \u2014 After <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktnv.com\/sports\/las-vegas-aces\/winning-streak-continues-the-las-vegas-aces-prevail-against-the-phoenix-mercury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">narrowly defeating<\/a> the Mercury last week, the Aces have their sights set on a second consecutive win against Phoenix on Thursday night. <\/p>\n<p>With the hopes of extending their <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktnv.com\/sports\/las-vegas-aces\/las-vegas-aces-keep-winning-streak-alive-in-matchup-against-atlanta-dream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eight game winning<\/a> streak to nine, the Aces will host the Mercury at Michelob ULTRA Arena. <\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s game is not only gearing up to be a highly-anticipated showdown \u2014 it&#8217;ll be a collector&#8217;s heaven. The first 7,500 fans through the doors will receive a collectible Jackie Young pin (the fourth pin of the season). <\/p>\n<p>Averaging 28.7 points with her eyes on the title of 2025 M&#8217;VP and Defensive Player of the Year, <b>A&#8217;ja Wilson<\/b> leads the league in scoring and rebounds over her past seven games. <\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s star pin design, <b>Jackie Young<\/b>, sits at second highest in scoring for the team, with an average of 16.7 points overall. <\/p>\n<p><b>Chelsea Gray<\/b> chipped in to get the Aces on their winning streak with 7.2 assists, which is up two from her 2025 average. <\/p>\n<p>With an average 14.1 points and double digit scores in nine out of the last 10 games,  <b>Jewell Loyd<\/b> is putting in the work off the bench. <\/p>\n<p><b>NaLyssa Smith<\/b> rounds out the team with 7.5 points and 6.5 rebounds as the Aces continue to dominate with W&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p>The game will tip off at 7 p.m. and will air on Vegas 34. Catch our exclusive pre-game coverage on The Spot Vegas 34 starting at 6:30 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>    <b>Where to watch<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/vegas34.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vegas 34<\/a> and Channel 13 are your new broadcast partners for the Las Vegas Aces \u2014 with more than 33 Aces games scheduled for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas 34 (KMCC) <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/vegas34.com\/findus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can be found<\/a> as Channel 34 on Cox Cable and DIRECTV, and as Channel 34.1 for viewers with an antenna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (KTNV) \u2014 After narrowly defeating the Mercury last week, the Aces have their sights set on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[11043,11044,11045,11046,11047,11048,4144,11049,11050,11051,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-164507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-13-abc","9":"tag-13-action-news","10":"tag-abc-13","11":"tag-basketball-in-las-vegas","12":"tag-channel-13","13":"tag-ktnv","14":"tag-las-vegas-aces","15":"tag-las-vegas-news","16":"tag-las-vegas-sports","17":"tag-las-vegas-womens-basketball","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164507","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=164507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}