COLLEGE PARK, Ga. — \u2014 A’ja Wilson scored 34 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Jackie Young had her second triple-double this season and the Las Vegas Aces beat the Atlanta Dream 91-85 on Wednesday night for their 12th consecutive win.<\/p>\n
The Aces (26-14) took sole possession of second in the WNBA standings, a game ahead of Atlanta (24-14) and six games behind league-leading Minnesota.<\/p>\n
Rhyne Howard and Brionna Jones led Atlanta with 19 points each.<\/p>\n
Wilson now has 35 career games scoring at least 30 points, the second most in WNBA history.<\/p>\n
Diana Taurasi holds the record with 54 career 30-point games. Wilson has 11 games with 30-plus points for the second consecutive season, one shy of the single-season record shared by Maya Moore (2014) and Jewell Loyd (2023).<\/p>\n
Young finished with 10 points, a career-high tying 11 rebounds and 10 assists.<\/p>\n
Howard hit a free throw that gave the Dream a 48-46 lead with 4:16 left in the third quarter. Wilson scored eight consecutive points \u2014 including back-to-back 3-pointers \u2014 in a 15-0 run that made it 61-48 going into the fourth and the Aces led the rest of the way.<\/p>\n
Chelsea Gray and Loyd each hit a 3-pointer in the final minute and scored 14 points apiece for Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
Wilson moved past Yolanda Griffith and Lauren Jackson into 20th in WNBA history with 2,452 career rebounds, two behind Crystal Langhorne.<\/p>\n
Allisha Gray scored 15 and Naz Hillmon grabbed a career-high 15 rebounds for Atlanta.<\/p>\n
The Aces are off until Sept. 4 when they play Minnesota \u2014 which has won three games against Las Vegas with a plus-33 margin of victory this season \u2014 in the first off three straight at T-Mobile Arena. The Dream wrap up a four-game homestand Friday against Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE PARK, Ga. — \u2014 A’ja Wilson scored 34 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Jackie Young had her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-102907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}