{"id":61030,"date":"2025-08-11T08:47:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/61030\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T08:47:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:47:18","slug":"aces-wilson-posts-first-30-20-game-in-wnba-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/61030\/","title":{"rendered":"Aces&#8217; Wilson posts first 30-20 game in WNBA history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 A&#8217;ja Wilson scored 32 points and tied a career-high with 20 rebounds to become the first player in WNBA history with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wnba\/status\/1954739575760293971?s=46\" rel=\"nofollow\">30-plus points and at least 20 rebounds<\/a> in a game as the Las Vegas Aces beat the Connecticut Sun 94-86 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HIGHLIGHTS ON HIGHLIGHTS \u2728<\/p>\n<p>A\u2019ja Wilson made history as the only player in WNBA history to record 30+ points and 20+ rebounds in a game, leading the Aces past the Sun, 94\u201386!<\/p>\n<p>32 PTS | 20 REB | 5 AST | 2 STL | 52.0 FG% (13-25)<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WNBARivalsWeek?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#WNBARivalsWeek<\/a> presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ally?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@ally<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QBppzVbD9i\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/QBppzVbD9i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WNBA (@WNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WNBA\/status\/1954756961813123314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wilson grabbed almost as many boards as Connecticut had as a team (23) as Las Vegas (18-14) won its season-best fourth straight.<\/p>\n<p>Jackie Young scored 21 points and reserves Jewell Loyd and Dana Evans scored 12 and 10 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Marina Mabrey scored 22 points, Saniya Rivers had 17 and Leila Lacan 13 for Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>The Sun built a 31-27 lead at the end of the first quarter and extended their lead to 45-33 with with 5:46 left before halftime on Tina Charles&#8217; jump shot. But the Aces outscored Connecticut 12-0 to close the half to tie it 45-all at the half.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea Gray made two free throws to put Las Vegas ahead 51-50 with 7:18 to play and it led for the remainder of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut (5-25) has now lost four straight.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP WNBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 A&#8217;ja Wilson scored 32 points and tied a career-high with 20 rebounds to become&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-61030","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\/61030","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=61030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}