{"id":24529,"date":"2025-07-26T02:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T02:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/24529\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T02:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T02:55:07","slug":"lynx-rout-aces-for-14th-straight-home-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/24529\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynx rout Aces for 14th straight home win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 Napheesa Collier scored 25 points, Courtney Williams added 23, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/minnesota-lynx\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"minnesota-lynx\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Minnesota Lynx<\/a> beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/las-vegas-aces\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"las-vegas-aces\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Las Vegas Aces<\/a> 109-78 on Friday night for their 14th straight home win.<\/p>\n<p>Williams shot 10-for-12 from the field, including 3-for-4 on three-pointers. Collier was 7-for-12 and made 10 of 13 free throws to go along with nine rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Bridget Carleton added 14 points, Kayla McBride scored 13 and Jessica Shepard had 10 points and 10 rebounds as the Lynx (22-4) won their fourth straight overall.<\/p>\n<p>After leading 51-35 at halftime, Minnesota scored 34 points in the third quarter and led 85-61 heading to the fourth. In addition to shooting 9-for-20 on three-pointers in the first three quarters, the Lynx added 22 free throws on 31 attempts. They finished 25-for-38 from the line and shot 54 per cent overall, with 10-for-25 on threes.<\/p>\n<p>The Lynx reached 100 points with four minutes left in the fourth quarter and Anastasiia Olairi Kosu scored on back-to-back possessions near the one-minute mark for the final score of the game and Minnesota&#8217;s largest lead of the night.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas, playing on the road for the second consecutive night, shot 38 per cent. A&#8217;ja Wilson led the Aces (12-13) with 15 points and Jackie Young scored 14.<\/p>\n<p>A three-pointer by Chelsea Gray gave Las Vegas a 14-12 lead before Minnesota finished the first quarter on a 15-4 run. Carleton made two threes in the spurt and Collier added five points.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, McBride and Collier all hit threes late in the second quarter as the Lynx took a 51-35 lead at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Lynx visit Atlanta on Sunday, and Aces play at Dallas for their third road game in four days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 Napheesa Collier scored 25 points, Courtney Williams added 23, and the Minnesota Lynx beat the Las&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-24529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24529","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=24529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}