The Las Vegas Aces took a 3-0 series lead over the Phoenix Mercury in the WNBA Finals following a 90-88 win on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
A’ja Wilson hit the game-winning shot with 0.1 seconds left and the scored tied at 88.<\/p>\n
“Get the ball to A’ja, and get out of the way,” said Becky Hammond of the final play.<\/p>\n
Wilson finished with 34 points and 11 rebounds. She also shot 50% on contested shots while holding the Mercury to 18% on shots she contested.<\/p>\n
Wilson said the Game 3 win was pivotal despite their series lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I mean, under Becky, we’ve never won a Game 3. This was a must-win for us,” Wilson said. “Just for that sake. I feel like my biggest mentality and the thing that I relayed to my teammates is like, we just need to win one … win possessions, win the quarters, and then everything else will pan out.”<\/p>\n
The Aces had a 17-point lead heading into the fourth quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
2020 was the last year there was a sweep in the WNBA Finals.<\/p>\n
“I’m not going to sugarcoat. We’ve got a tough road ahead,” Mercury coach Nate Tibbetts said, “but we’ve got to take it one game at a time.”<\/p>\n
Game 4 is on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Las Vegas Aces took a 3-0 series lead over the Phoenix Mercury in the WNBA Finals following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[98532,49,48,12274,82,630],"class_list":["post-199570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-aces-take-3-0-lead-in-wnba-finals-following-aja-wilson-game-winner","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-realgm-wiretap","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199570","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=199570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}