{"id":28135,"date":"2025-07-28T00:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/28135\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T00:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:39:09","slug":"young-scores-24-points-loyd-and-bell-switch-roles-and-aces-roll-past-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/28135\/","title":{"rendered":"Young scores 24 points, Loyd and Bell switch roles and Aces roll past Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Jackie Young scored 24 points, Jewell Loyd had a strong game off the bench and 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=\"nofollow noopener\">Las Vegas Aces<\/a> beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/dallas-wings\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"dallas-wings\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dallas Wings<\/a>, who rested rookie star Paige Bueckers, 106-80 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Loyd came off the bench for the first time\u00a0in her first season with the Aces\u00a0to score 20 points, and Kierstan Bell replaced her and scored a career-high 19. The duo combined for seven three-pointers as Las Vegas hit a season high 15, with five from Young.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A&#8217;ja Wilson scored 14 points with 10 rebounds and seven assists for Las Vegas (13-13), which snapped a two-game losing skid. NaLyssa Smith scored 11 points.<\/p>\n<p>Arike Ogunbowale scored 18 for the Wings (7-19) with Haley Jones adding 15, DiJonai Carrington 14 and Teaira McCowan 12 with 13 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Young had 14 points on four three-pointers for the Aces in the first quarter, which ended with the score tied at 27, and the Wings shot 59 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Bell hit a three-pointer to put the Aces up 39-36 midway through the second quarter and followed with another as Las Vegas surged to a 56-44 halftime lead. It was the 10th 50-point half Dallas allowed and the second straight.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas only had 12 turnovers but the Aces turned those into 26 points while the Wings got 10 points off 10 turnovers.<\/p>\n<p>Becky Hammon earned her 100th regular-season win, became the third-fastest coach to reach the milestone in 142 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Jackie Young scored 24 points, Jewell Loyd had a strong game off the bench and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-28135","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\/28135","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=28135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}