{"id":78094,"date":"2025-08-18T06:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/78094\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T06:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:37:15","slug":"aja-wilson-scores-34-aces-hit-18-3-pointers-in-win-over-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/78094\/","title":{"rendered":"A&#8217;ja Wilson scores 34, Aces hit 18 3-pointers in win over Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 A&#8217;ja Wilson scored 34 points, Chelsea Gray added 10 points and a career-high tying 14 assists 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> tied their season-high with 18 3-pointers in a 106-87 win over 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=\"noopener nofollow\">Dallas Wings<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas (22-14), which topped 100 points for the fourth time this season, has won seven straight games and nine of 10.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson shot 11 for 16 from the field and and 11 for 14 from the line.<\/p>\n<p>Kierstan Bell made a career-high six 3-pointers on seven attempts and finished with 18 points for the Aces. NaLyssa Smith scored 14 points and Jewell Loyd added 12 on 4-for-8 shooting from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>Maddy Siegrist scored a career-high 23 points on 11-of-15 shooting for the Wings, and Paige Bueckers added 18 points.<\/p>\n<p>Bell hit a 3-pointer that gave the Aces the lead for good with 34 seconds left in the first quarter and made another 3 with 7:12 remaining in the first half for a 10-point lead at 41-31. Dallas got within six points multiple times in the third quarter, but Loyd hit a 3-pointer that sparked a 14-4 run and the Aces led by double figures throughout the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas (9-26) has lost two straight and seven of its last eight.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas shot 34 of 68 from the field, 53 per cent from behind the arc and hit 20 of 23 (87 per cent) from the line.<\/p>\n<p>The Wings shot 3 of 17 (18 per cent) from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>Arike Ogunbowale (knee) did not play for Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>The Aces host Atlanta on Tuesday. The Wings plays the Sparks in Los Angeles on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 A&#8217;ja Wilson scored 34 points, Chelsea Gray added 10 points and a career-high tying 14&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-78094","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\/78094","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=78094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}