{"id":917440,"date":"2026-10-02T05:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T05:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917440\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T05:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T05:06:19","slug":"talbot-out-but-las-vegas-aces-into-wnba-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917440\/","title":{"rendered":"Talbot OUT but Las Vegas Aces into WNBA semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

WNBA Scores: Las Vegas Aces 94 def. Indiana Fever 83 (Final)<\/p>\n

Australian forward Stephanie Talbot<\/a>, 32, missed the deciding Game 3 of the first round with a leg injury, but the third-seeded Las Vegas Aces<\/a> beat the sixth-seeded Indiana Fever<\/a> 94-83 at Michelob ULTRA Arena on Friday (AEST) to win the series 2-1.<\/p>\n

Talbot was listed as out with a leg injury before tip-off. The Australian Opals star<\/a> had started all but one game this season, and Jewell Loyd took her spot in the starting five and scored 11 points.<\/p>\n

A’ja Wilson scored 36 points on 11-from-18 shooting, made 12 of her 15 free throws and grabbed 10 rebounds. Chelsea Gray added 23 points and Jackie Young 18 points, eight rebounds and seven assists.<\/p>\n

The teams were level at 31-31 after the first quarter. Las Vegas led 54-48 at half-time and pushed out to 67-55 in the third quarter, before Indiana twice cut the margin to two points in the fourth. The Aces went 28-from-35 from the free-throw line to Indiana’s 14-from-20.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Kelsey Mitchell led the Fever with 23 points, Aliyah Boston had 19 points and 10 rebounds, and Caitlin Clark scored 18 on 6-from-18 shooting, with 11 of those points in the first quarter.<\/p>\n

Talbot averaged 8.5 points and 3.5 rebounds in the first two games of the series: eight points in the Game 1 win and nine in the Game 2 loss.<\/p>\n

Indiana had no Australian on its roster, so Talbot was the only Australian in the series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stephanie Talbot (LV): DNP, out (leg injury)<\/p>\n

Las Vegas, who finished the regular season 31-13, play the winner of Golden State v Dallas in the semi-finals. That Game 3 is in San Francisco at 11:00am AEST on Saturday, October 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WNBA Scores: Las Vegas Aces 94 def. Indiana Fever 83 (Final) Australian forward Stephanie Talbot, 32, missed the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-917440","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\/917440","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=917440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}