{"id":121288,"date":"2025-09-05T07:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/121288\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T07:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:12:07","slug":"aces-97-87-lynx-sep-4-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/121288\/","title":{"rendered":"Aces 97-87 Lynx (Sep 4, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              LAS VEGAS &#8212; \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson had 31 points and eight rebounds, Jackie Young added 20 points and the Las Vegas Aces beat the first-place Minnesota Lynx 97-87 on Thursday night to set a franchise record with their 13th straight victory.<\/p>\n<p>              Wilson scored 30-plus points for 12th time this season to tie a WNBA record. <\/p>\n<p>              Las Vegas (27-14) snapped a six-game losing streak in the series, with its last victory over the Lynx coming on May 29, 2024. The Aces moved into a second-place tie with Atlanta (27-14) and Phoenix (27-14), five games behind Minnesota (32-9).<\/p>\n<p>              The Aces went ahead 63-55 five minutes into the third quarter after 3-pointers from Jewell Loyd and Young. Las Vegas finished the quarter up 70-66 after a buzzer-beater layup from Chelsea Gray.<\/p>\n<p>              Wilson hit her only 3-pointer of the game halfway through the fourth to extend the lead to 81-71.<\/p>\n<p>              Natisha Hiedeman scored 22 points off the bench for Minnesota, 11 in the fourth quarter. Courtney Williams added 14 points and Napheesa Collier had 12 points on 5-of-13 shooting.<\/p>\n<p>              Las Vegas shot 55.1% from the field, including 11 of 24 from 3-point range. <\/p>\n<p>              The Aces, who <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lynx-aces-score-a173643902b3833a0a7e7d311211f6f3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lost by 53 points to Minnesota<\/a> in their last meeting on Aug. 2, became the seventh team in WNBA history to reach 13 wins in a row in a single season. <\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              AP WNBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS &#8212; \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson had 31 points and eight rebounds, Jackie Young added 20 points and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-121288","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\/121288","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=121288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}