{"id":157223,"date":"2025-09-20T19:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/157223\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T19:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:40:08","slug":"fever-aces-tip-off-semifinals-on-sunday-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/157223\/","title":{"rendered":"Fever, Aces Tip Off Semifinals on Sunday in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game Preview: Fever, Aces Tip Off Semifinals on Sunday in Las Vegas<\/p>\n<p>Sat, Sep 20, 2025, 10:46 AM<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60809 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2236179002.jpg\" alt=\"Kelsey Mitchell\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Indiana Fever at Las Vegas Aces (Game 1)<br \/>Sunday, September 21<br \/>Michelob Ultra Arena | 3:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p>Broadcast Information<br \/>TV: ABC<br \/>Radio: 93.1 WIBC \u2013 John Nolan (play-by-play), Bria Goss (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>Probable Starters<\/p>\n<p>Indiana Fever<\/p>\n<p>Guard \u2013 Odyssey Sims<br \/>Guard \u2013 Kelsey Mitchell<br \/>Forward \u2013 Lexie Hull<br \/>Forward \u2013 Natasha Howard<br \/>Center \u2013 Aliyah Boston<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas Aces<\/p>\n<p>Guard \u2013 Chelsea Gray<br \/>Guard \u2013 Jackie Young<br \/>Forward \u2013 Kierstan Bell<br \/>Forward \u2013 NaLyssa Smith<br \/>Center \u2013 A\u2019ja Wilson<\/p>\n<p>GAME PREVIEW:<\/p>\n<p>After knocking off the third-seeded Atlanta Dream in the first round of the playoffs, the Indiana Fever will tip off the WNBA Semifinals against the second-seeded Las Vegas Aces on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Fever won the final two games against the Dream to advance to the next round, including <a href=\"https:\/\/fever.wnba.com\/news\/game-recap-fever-dream-250918\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a dramatic 87-85 victory<\/a> on the road in Atlanta on Thursday where they rallied from a five-point deficit in the final 2:05 to win the series.<\/p>\n<p>As expected, All-Stars Kelsey Mitchell and Aliyah Boston were huge for the Fever in the first round. Mitchell averaged 23.3 points per game over the series, including a game-high 24 points in Game 3. Boston averaged 12.3 points, 9.7 rebounds, and 4.3 assists and scored the game-winning basket in Game 3, where she stuffed the stat line with 14 points, 12 boards, and six assists.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell was <a href=\"https:\/\/fever.wnba.com\/news\/kelsey-mitchell-named-2025-wnba-mvp-finalist\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">named one of five finalist<\/a>s for the 2025 WNBA MVP award on Friday, as was Aces center A\u2019ja Wilson. Wilson has made a strong case for her fourth MVP award of her career, averaging 23.4 points, 10.2 rebounds, and 2.3 blocks per game in the regular season. She averaged 29.3 points in Vegas\u2019 first round series with Seattle, including 38 points in a 74-73 victory in Game 3.<\/p>\n<p>On paper, the Aces will be heavy favorites in this series. This is Las Vegas\u2019 seventh straight year reaching at least the semifinals, including back-to-back WNBA titles in 2022 and 2023. The Aces won their final 16 games to close the regular season, but were tested in the first round of the playoffs by the Storm, who won Game 2 in Seattle and took the Aces to the final possession in Game 3.<\/p>\n<p>But the Fever have shown to be remarkably consistent all season long, first making the playoffs and then advancing despite having five players out with season-ending injuries. If there\u2019s any lesson to be learned this season, it\u2019s that you can never count the Fever out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game Preview: Fever, Aces Tip Off Semifinals on Sunday in Las Vegas Sat, Sep 20, 2025, 10:46 AM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-157223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}