{"id":168121,"date":"2025-09-25T09:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168121\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T09:56:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:56:06","slug":"las-vegas-aces-beat-indiana-fever-90-68-in-game-2-even-wnba-semifinals-1-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168121\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Aces Beat Indiana Fever 90-68 in Game 2, Even WNBA Semifinals 1-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the 2025 WNBA Playoffs in full swing, many big-name players are shifting their focus to the winter, joining the 2026 roster for offseason leagues like <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/paige-bueckers-alyssa-thomas-headline-new-players-for-unrivaled-basketballs-2026-3x3-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">3\u00d73 upstart Unrivaled<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/athletes-unlimited-basketball-wnba-sydney-colson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">5\u00d75 Athletes Unlimited<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut Sun rookie Aneesah Morrow officially signed with AU Pro Basketball this week, joining WNBA veteran teammate Tina Charles, Las Vegas Aces standout and 2023 AU champion NaLyssa Smith, as well as fellow pro first-years in guards Kaitlyn Chen (Golden State Valkyries) and Te-Hina PaoPao (Atlanta Dream) on the AU court.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Athletes Unlimited Basketball season also boasts several <a href=\"https:\/\/auprosports.com\/read\/au-pro-basketball-returns-to-nashville-for-fifth-championship-season-with-elite-roster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">returning stars<\/a> among its 40-player league roster, including Chicago Sky guard Kia Nurse, Washington Mystics forward Alysha Clark, Seattle Storm guard\u00a0Lexie Brown,\u00a0and New York Liberty forward\u00a0Isabelle Harrison.<\/p>\n<p>Tipping off its fifth season in February 2026, the month-long Nashville-based competition features rotating teams and individual leaderboards, offering an alternative to both overseas play and Unrivaled&#8217;s 3\u00d73 team format.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s player-driven,&#8221; Charles said in her own <a href=\"https:\/\/auprosports.com\/read\/connecticut-sun-tina-charles-signs-athletes-unlimited-wnba-veteran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">AU Basketball signing announcement<\/a> earlier this month. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s really neat, you know, something that I&#8217;ve never been a part of, nor have I seen on men&#8217;s or women&#8217;s side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How to watch the 2026 Athletes Unlimited Basketball season<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming 2026 season of AU Pro Basketball runs from February 5th through March 2nd, with all 24 games airing live across several different <a href=\"https:\/\/auprosports.com\/basketball\/where-to-watch-basketball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">broadcasters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the 2025 WNBA Playoffs in full swing, many big-name players are shifting their focus to the winter,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[86592,68676,32560,86593,4662,49,48,38507,2803,16666,3460,35697,82,2807,630,86594],"class_list":{"0":"post-168121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-2025-wnba-mvp","9":"tag-2025-wnba-playoffs","10":"tag-2025-wnba-season","11":"tag-2025-wnba-semifinals","12":"tag-aja-wilson","13":"tag-ca","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-dana-evans","16":"tag-indiana-fever","17":"tag-jewell-loyd","18":"tag-las-vegas-aces","19":"tag-nalyssa-smith","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-stephanie-white","22":"tag-wnba","23":"tag-wnba-officiating"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168121","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=168121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}