{"id":204166,"date":"2025-10-11T02:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T02:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204166\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T02:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T02:31:11","slug":"aces-complete-sweep-of-mercury-to-win-third-wnba-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204166\/","title":{"rendered":"Aces complete sweep of Mercury to win third WNBA title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Aces beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/phoenix-mercury\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"phoenix-mercury\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phoenix Mercury<\/a> 97-86 on Friday to complete a four-game sweep in the WNBA Finals and win the 2025 championship.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the Aces&#8217; third championship in the last four seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas also won in 2022 and 2023 before the New York Liberty ended their run and won the title in 2024. <\/p>\n<p>The Aces were led all playoffs by regular-season MVP A&#8217;ja Wilson, as the 29-year-old centre set a WNBA record with the most points in a single post-season en route to another championship. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Aces beat the Phoenix Mercury 97-86 on Friday to complete a four-game sweep in the WNBA Finals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-204166","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\/204166","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=204166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}