{"id":771368,"date":"2026-06-30T16:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/771368\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:14:09","slug":"las-vegas-aces-aja-wilson-ruled-out-of-commissioners-cup-championship-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/771368\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Aces&#8217; A&#8217;ja Wilson ruled out of Commissioner&#8217;s Cup championship game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A\u2019ja Wilson has been ruled out of the Las Vegas Aces\u2019 matchup Tuesday against the New York Liberty in the Commissioner\u2019s Cup championship game due to a right leg injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This will mark just the seventh game Wilson has missed the past seven seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wilson rolled her ankle in the fourth quarter of the Aces\u2019 107-99 win over the Chicago Sky on Sunday. She returned to the game after a brief trip to the locker room. She finished with 30 points and 15 rebounds, a WNBA-record eighth time in her career she has reached those numbers in a game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wilson said on the broadcast after the game that she expects to bounce back from the injury after treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 6-foot-4 forward, in search of her fifth MVP award, leads the league in scoring at 25.7 points per game, is fourth in rebounding (9.4 RPG) and first in blocks (2.0 BPG).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Aces, who are representing the Western Conference in the final of the WNBA\u2019s in-season tournament, are second in the league standings at 14-5, while the Liberty, who are representing the East, are fifth at 12-8 after losing four of their past five games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">New York\u2019s Satou Sabally has also been ruled out for Tuesday\u2019s game because she remains in concussion protocol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\u2019ja Wilson has been ruled out of the Las Vegas Aces\u2019 matchup Tuesday against the New York Liberty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,91337,82,630],"class_list":["post-771368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-las-vegas-aces-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-153","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771368","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=771368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}