{"id":165809,"date":"2025-08-22T06:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/165809\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T06:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:34:09","slug":"las-vegas-takes-road-win-streak-into-matchup-with-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/165809\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas takes road win streak into matchup with Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/las-vegas-aces-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Aces<\/a> (23-14, 14-8 Western Conference) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/washington-mystics-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Mystics<\/a> (16-20, 8-9 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">Washington; Saturday, 3 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Las Vegas Aces will try to keep its four-game road win streak alive when the Aces play Washington Mystics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">The Mystics are 10-8 on their home court. Washington ranks ninth in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a> with 19.2 assists per game led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/sug-sutton-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sug Sutton<\/a> averaging 3.7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">The Aces are 9-9 on the road. Las Vegas ranks third in the Western Conference shooting 33.2% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">Washington is shooting 44.4% from the field this season, 0.5 percentage points higher than the 43.9% Las Vegas allows to opponents. Las Vegas averages 8.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.9 more makes per game than Washington allows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">The teams play for the fourth time this season. The Mystics won the last matchup 70-68 on July 10, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/shakira-austin-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shakira Austin<\/a> scoring 16 points in the victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: Kiki Iriafen is shooting 49.4% and averaging 12.8 points for the Mystics. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/sonia-citron-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sonia Citron<\/a> is averaging 18.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/chelsea-gray-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea Gray<\/a> is averaging 11.1 points and 5.1 assists for the Aces. A&#8217;ja Wilson is averaging 24.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Mystics: 3-7, averaging 77.2 points, 29.0 rebounds, 20.3 assists, 7.1 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 47.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 80.8 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">Aces: 9-1, averaging 85.3 points, 35.2 rebounds, 20.3 assists, 7.5 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 44.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 81.2 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">INJURIES: Mystics: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/georgia-amoore-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia Amoore<\/a>: out for season (acl).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">Aces: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/cheyenne-parker-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cheyenne Parker-Tyus<\/a>: out (personal).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<p>\n        What did you think of this story?\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Las Vegas Aces (23-14, 14-8 Western Conference) at Washington Mystics (16-20, 8-9 Eastern Conference) Washington; Saturday,&hellip;\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-165809","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\/115071029854880383","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165809","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=165809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165809\/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=165809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}