{"id":922492,"date":"2026-10-06T07:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T07:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/922492\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T07:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T07:26:09","slug":"golden-state-hosts-las-vegas-with-1-0-series-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/922492\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden State hosts Las Vegas with 1-0 series lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Las Vegas Aces<\/a> (31-13, 17-6 Western Conference) at Golden State Valkyries<\/a> (32-12, 15-8 Western Conference)<\/p>\n

San Francisco; Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Valkyries -1.5; over\/under is 157.5<\/p>\n

WNBA<\/a> PLAYOFFS SEMIFINALS: Valkyries lead series 1-0<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Golden State Valkyries host the Las Vegas Aces in the WNBA playoffs semifinals with a 1-0 lead in the series. The Valkyries defeated the Aces 71-60 in the last meeting. Gabby Williams<\/a> led the Valkyries with 25 points, and A’ja Wilson led the Aces with 24 points.<\/p>\n

The Valkyries are 15-8 against Western Conference opponents. Golden State is 3-3 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n

The Aces are 17-6 against Western Conference teams. Las Vegas is sixth in the WNBA scoring 39.8 points per game in the paint led by Wilson averaging 12.5.<\/p>\n

Golden State averages 10.4 made 3-pointers per game, 1.6 more made shots than the 8.8 per game Las Vegas gives up. Las Vegas averages 8.7 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.7 more makes per game than Golden State allows.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Williams is averaging 14.4 points and 1.6 steals for the Valkyries. Janelle Salaun<\/a> is averaging 12.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Wilson is averaging 26.2 points, 9.4 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.9 blocks for the Aces. Jackie Young<\/a> is averaging 20.2 points and 4.1 rebounds while shooting 46.3% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Valkyries: 8-2, averaging 82.7 points, 37.3 rebounds, 19.4 assists, 7.2 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 41.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 73.8 points per game.<\/p>\n

Aces: 8-2, averaging 92.7 points, 31.5 rebounds, 20.7 assists, 9.1 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 49.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 80.4 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Valkyries: Iliana Rupert: out for season (pregnancy).<\/p>\n

Aces: Janiah Barker: out for season (leg), Dana Evans<\/a>: day to day (knee), Stephanie Talbot<\/a>: day to day (leg), NaLyssa Smith: out for season (leg), Jewell Loyd: day to day (leg).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Aces (31-13, 17-6 Western Conference) at Golden State Valkyries (32-12, 15-8 Western Conference) San Francisco; Wednesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,38507,189831,4648,1612,4661,21319,3460,82,220896,630,9709],"class_list":["post-922492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dana-evans","tag-event_preview","tag-gabby-williams","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-jackie-young","tag-janelle-salaun","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-sports","tag-stephanie-talbot","tag-wnba","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922492","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=922492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}