{"id":138274,"date":"2025-09-12T09:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/138274\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T09:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:36:10","slug":"las-vegas-aces-set-wnba-record-with-22-3-pointers-in-win-over-los-angeles-sparks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/138274\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Aces set WNBA record with 22 3-pointers in win over Los Angeles Sparks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson had 23 points and 19 rebounds, Jewell Loyd added 21 points and the Las Vegas Aces made a single-game WNBA record 22 3-pointers in their 16th consecutive win, 103-75 over the Los Angeles Sparks on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Las Vegas (30-14) is tied for the second-longest win streak in league history with the Phoenix Mercury. The Aces secured the No. 2 seed in the playoffs and will face the Seattle Storm on Sunday to begin a three-game series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Sparks (21-23) were pushed out of a playoff spot after Seattle beat Golden State on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Las Vegas went 22 of 45 from 3-point range to top the league record of 19 set by New York and Atlanta. Loyd hit seven 3-point shots and Jackie Young went 5 for 10. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Young finished with 17 points and 12 assists to become the fastest player in WNBA history to reach 3,000 points, 1,000 rebounds and 1,000 assists, doing so in 243 games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chelsea Gray went 3 of 5 beyond the arc and finished with 15 points and 10 assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kelsey Plum, Dearica Hamby and rookie Sarah Ashlee Barker scored 15 points each for Los Angeles. Rae Burrell added 10 points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cameron Brink left the game in the second quarter with a bloody nose after getting hit by an elbow while battling for a rebound and did not return. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP WNBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson had 23 points and 19 rebounds, Jewell Loyd added 21 points and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-138274","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\/138274","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=138274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}