{"id":101588,"date":"2025-08-22T10:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/101588\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T10:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:20:07","slug":"aja-wilson-has-19-points-and-13-rebounds-aces-beat-mercury-83-61-for-9th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/101588\/","title":{"rendered":"A\u2019ja Wilson has 19 points and 13 rebounds, Aces beat Mercury 83-61 for 9th straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson had 19 points and 13 rebounds, Dana Evans scored 17 points and the Las Vegas Aces beat the Phoenix Mercury 83-61 on Thursday night to win their ninth straight.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas (23-14) hasn\u2019t lost since a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lynx-aces-score-a173643902b3833a0a7e7d311211f6f3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">111-58<\/a> home defeat to Minnesota on Aug. 2, and has won 11 of its last 12. The Aces have won seven straight at home.<\/p>\n<p>Jackie Young, Chelsea Gray and NaLyssa Smith scored 12 points apiece for Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson, who had her 18th double-double this season, had her string of 30-point games snapped at three.<\/p>\n<p>Alyssa Thomas had 17 points, 11 rebounds and six assists for Phoenix (21-14). Satou Sabally scored 15 points.<\/p>\n<p>Sabally scored in the post to make it a nine-point game but Evans answered with a running floater and Gray followed with a fadeaway that made it 59-46 at the end of the third quarter, and the Aces led by double figures the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<p>The Mercury were limited to season lows for points (61) and field-goal percentage (31%).<\/p>\n<p>Kierstan Bell hit a 3-pointer that gave the Aces the lead for good and sparked a 7-0 run that made it 23-17 at the end of the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Sabally converted a three-point play that trimmed the Mercury\u2019s deficit to 37-29 with 1:41 left in the second quarter but Gray made a step-back jumper, Young tipped in her own miss and Gray hit another jumper to give the Aces a 14-point lead at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Kahleah Copper (rib) left the game after a collision with Wilson in the third quarter and did not return.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Mercury host Golden State on Friday, and Aces play at Washington on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson had 19 points and 13 rebounds, Dana Evans scored 17 points and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-101588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}