{"id":106062,"date":"2025-08-24T07:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T07:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/106062\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T07:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T07:09:10","slug":"las-vegas-visits-chicago-aims-for-25th-win-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/106062\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas visits Chicago, aims for 25th win of season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/las-vegas-aces-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Aces<\/a> (24-14, 14-8 Western Conference) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/chicago-sky-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Sky<\/a> (9-27, 3-15 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">Chicago; Monday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Las Vegas Aces will aim for its 25th win this season when the Aces visit the Chicago Sky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">The Sky are 5-14 on their home court. Chicago ranks fifth in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a> with 26.0 defensive rebounds per game led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/angel-reese-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Angel Reese<\/a> averaging 8.4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">The Aces are 10-9 on the road. Las Vegas ranks seventh in the WNBA with 33.9 rebounds per game. A&#8217;ja Wilson leads the Aces with 10.2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">Chicago&#8217;s average of 6.8 made 3-pointers per game this season is only 0.7 fewer made shots on average than the 7.5 per game Las Vegas allows. Las Vegas&#8217; 43.0% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.1 percentage points lower than Chicago has allowed to its opponents (45.1%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">The teams match up Monday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/kamilla-cardoso-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kamilla Cardoso<\/a> is averaging 13.2 points and 8.3 rebounds for the Sky. Reese is averaging 14.5 points, 12.2 rebounds and 3.7 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/jackie-young-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackie Young<\/a> is averaging 16.4 points and 4.6 assists for the Aces. Wilson is averaging 27.0 points and 13.1 rebounds while shooting 50.3% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Sky: 2-8, averaging 73.0 points, 34.5 rebounds, 20.9 assists, 4.6 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 43.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 83.2 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">Aces: 10-0, averaging 88.6 points, 36.4 rebounds, 21.2 assists, 7.5 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 46.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 78.2 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">INJURIES: Sky: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/courtney-vandersloot-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Courtney Vandersloot<\/a>: out for season (acl).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">Aces: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/cheyenne-parker-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cheyenne Parker-Tyus<\/a>: out (personal).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<p>\n        What did you think of this story?\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Las Vegas Aces (24-14, 14-8 Western Conference) at Chicago Sky (9-27, 3-15 Eastern Conference) Chicago; Monday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-106062","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\/106062","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=106062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}