UNCASVILLE, Conn. \u2014 A’ja Wilson scored 19 points and had four blocks, Chelsea Gray moved into sixth on the WNBA’s career assist list and the Las Vegas Aces beat Connecticut 86-68 on Sunday to extend the Sun’s franchise-record losing streak to 10 games. <\/p>\n
Dana Evans scored a season-high 18 points on 7-of-11 shooting, Jackie Young had 14 points and six assists, and NaLyssa Smith added 11 points and 10 rebounds \u2014 her first double double of the season \u2014 for the Aces. <\/p>\n
Gray sent a left-handed pass to Wilson in the post for a layup to surpass Becky Hammon (1,708) \u2014 the current Aces coach \u2014 for sixth on the WNBA\u2019s assists list. Gray finished with eight assists to go with six points and has 1,710 assists in her career. <\/p>\n
Las Vegas (9-9) has won seven in a row against the Sun. <\/p>\n
Evans made a tiebreaking layup that sparked a 13-2 run that gave the Aces a 29-18 lead when Young converted a three-point play with about 5 1\/2 minutes left in the first half. Las Vegas took a 43-28 lead into the intermission and led by double figures the rest of the way. <\/p>\n
Aneesah Morrow led Connecticut (2-16) with 12 points, Tina Charles scored 11 and Saniya Rivers 10. <\/p>\n
Marina Mabrey (knee) missed her fifth consecutive game for Connecticut. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNCASVILLE, Conn. \u2014 A’ja Wilson scored 19 points and had four blocks, Chelsea Gray moved into sixth on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[2472,4144,62,67,132,68,10190,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-44496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-connecticut-sun","9":"tag-las-vegas-aces","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wires-bot","15":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114808762073007817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44496","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=44496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}