{"id":51326,"date":"2025-08-07T05:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T05:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/51326\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T05:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T05:51:09","slug":"aja-wilson-scores-27-points-in-aces-victory-over-valkyries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/51326\/","title":{"rendered":"A&#8217;ja Wilson scores 27 points in Aces&#8217; victory over Valkyries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson scored 27 points, Jackie Young and Jewell Loyd each added 14 points 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=\"noopener nofollow\">Las Vegas Aces<\/a> beat the Golden State Valkyries 78-72 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas (16-14) ended the third quarter on a 13-4 run for a 64-54 lead, then went scoreless in the fourth until the 6:05 mark as Golden State got as close as 66-63. A 5-0 run by the Aces, highlighted by a three-pointer by Loyd, made it 74-65 with 2:47 left.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson sealed it with two free throws with 34.9 seconds left.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson went 8-for-11 from the field and 11 of 11 at the free-throw line. She also had two blocks in the first quarter to become the 10th player in WNBA history with 500.<\/p>\n<p>Tiffany Hayes scored 14 points and Janelle Salaun added 13 for Golden State (14-15). Carla Leite and Kaila Charles each added 11.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas led 43-38 at halftime behind 14 points from Wilson. The Aces took the lead for good on Young&#8217;s three-pointer with 4:49 left in the third at 51-48.<\/p>\n<p>Dana Evans gave Las Vegas the first double-digit lead of the game at 62-52 with 46 seconds left in the third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson scored 27 points, Jackie Young and Jewell Loyd each added 14 points and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-51326","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\/51326","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=51326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}