{"id":127905,"date":"2025-09-08T03:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T03:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/127905\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T03:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T03:18:07","slug":"aces-80-66-sky-sep-7-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/127905\/","title":{"rendered":"Aces 80-66 Sky (Sep 7, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

LAS VEGAS — \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson had 31 points and 11 rebounds to help the Las Vegas Aces beat the Chicago Sky 80-66 on Sunday night to extend the longest win streak in franchise history. <\/p>\n

The Aces have won 14 games in a row, tied for with the 2021 Connecticut Sun for the fourth-longest regular season win streak in league history. The Los Angeles Sparks won a record 18 straight in the regular season on their way to the 2001 WNBA title. <\/p>\n

Las Vegas (28-14) is tied with Atlanta for second in the WNBA standings, a game ahead of Phoenix. The regular season ends Thursday and the 2025 WNBA playoffs begin next Sunday.<\/p>\n

Angel Reese didn’t play for Chicago. The team announced Friday that Reese was suspended for the first half of the Sunday\u2019s game for making comments<\/a> \u201cdetrimental to the team\u201d and then at halftime announced that the two-time WNBA All-Star would not play in the second half due to a back injury. <\/p>\n

Reese also missed Friday\u2019s 97-77<\/a> loss to Indiana due to a mandatory one-game suspension by the WNBA for picking up her eighth technical foul of the season. Chicago was also missing Ariel Atkins (back).<\/p>\n

Wilson has scored at least 30 points in three straight and a WNBA-record 13 games this season. The three-time league MVP has 10 30-point double-doubles this season. Jackie Young had 20 points and nine assists for the Aces. <\/p>\n

Wilson put back her own miss to spark an 11-0 opening run and the Aces led the rest of the way. <\/p>\n

Rachel Banham and Michaela Onyenwere scored 12 points apiece to lead Chicago (10-32). Kamilla Cardoso had 10 points and 15 rebounds. <\/p>\n

NaLyssa Smith (concussion protocol) did not play for the Aces. <\/p>\n

The teams play again Tuesday in Las Vegas. <\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP WNBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS — \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson had 31 points and 11 rebounds to help the Las Vegas Aces…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-127905","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\/127905","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=127905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}