{"id":204427,"date":"2025-09-06T07:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T07:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/204427\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T07:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T07:38:10","slug":"chicago-visits-las-vegas-after-wilsons-31-point-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/204427\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago visits Las Vegas after Wilson&#8217;s 31-point showing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/chicago-sky-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Sky<\/a> (10-31, 4-16 Eastern Conference) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/las-vegas-aces-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Aces<\/a> (27-14, 15-8 Western Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">Las Vegas; Sunday, 9 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Las Vegas Aces hosts the Chicago Sky after A&#8217;ja Wilson scored 31 points in the Las Vegas Aces&#8217; 97-87 victory against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/minnesota-lynx-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Lynx<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">The Aces are 15-5 on their home court. Las Vegas is 5-1 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">The Sky have gone 4-16 away from home. Chicago has a 6-21 record in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">Las Vegas is shooting 43.4% from the field this season, 1.5 percentage points lower than the 44.9% Chicago allows to opponents. Chicago averages 76.1 points per game, 5.6 fewer points than the 81.7 Las Vegas allows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">The teams square off for the second time this season. The Aces won 79-74 in the last meeting on Aug. 26. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/jackie-young-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackie Young<\/a> led the Aces with 22 points, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/ariel-atkins-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ariel Atkins<\/a> led the Sky with 30 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: Wilson is averaging 23.6 points, 10.1 rebounds, 1.5 steals and 2.2 blocks for the Aces. Young is averaging 15.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/kamilla-cardoso-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kamilla Cardoso<\/a> is averaging 13.5 points and 8.3 rebounds for the Sky. Atkins is averaging 12.4 points and 4.0 rebounds while shooting 46.5% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Aces: 10-0, averaging 87.4 points, 33.4 rebounds, 22.4 assists, 7.1 steals and 5.0 blocks per game while shooting 47.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 78.3 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">Sky: 2-8, averaging 77.1 points, 35.0 rebounds, 21.0 assists, 5.2 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 44.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 83.6 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">INJURIES: 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-f2393c96=\"\">Sky: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/courtney-vandersloot-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Courtney Vandersloot<\/a>: out for season (acl).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">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 Chicago Sky (10-31, 4-16 Eastern Conference) at Las Vegas Aces (27-14, 15-8 Western Conference) Las Vegas;&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-204427","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\/115156215985580536","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204427","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=204427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204427\/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=204427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}