{"id":110792,"date":"2025-08-26T07:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T07:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/110792\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T07:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T07:52:08","slug":"atlanta-seeks-25th-victory-of-season-in-matchup-against-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/110792\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta seeks 25th victory of season in matchup against Las Vegas"},"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> (25-14, 14-8 Western Conference) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/atlanta-dream-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Dream<\/a> (24-13, 12-6 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">College Park, Georgia; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Atlanta Dream will try to earn its 25th victory this season when the Dream host the Las Vegas Aces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">The Dream have gone 12-5 in home games. Atlanta is the leader in the Eastern Conference at limiting opponent scoring, allowing 77.0 points while holding opponents to 42.9% shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">The Aces are 11-9 on the road. Las Vegas is fifth in the Western Conference with 33.7 rebounds per game led by A&#8217;ja Wilson averaging 10.1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">Atlanta averages 9.3 made 3-pointers per game, 1.8 more made shots than the 7.5 per game Las Vegas gives up. Las Vegas has shot at a 43.0% clip from the field this season, 0.1 percentage points higher than the 42.9% shooting opponents of Atlanta have averaged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">The teams square off for the third time this season. The Aces won the last matchup 74-72 on Aug. 20, with Wilson scoring 32 points in the victory.<\/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\/brionna-jones-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brionna Jones<\/a> is averaging 12.7 points and 7.2 rebounds for the Dream. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/allisha-gray-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Allisha Gray<\/a> is averaging 19.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">Wilson is averaging 23.1 points, 10.1 rebounds, 3.1 assists, 1.6 steals and 2.2 blocks for the Aces. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/jackie-young-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackie Young<\/a> is averaging 16.1 points and 4.9 rebounds while shooting 47.7% 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: Dream: 8-2, averaging 82.1 points, 36.7 rebounds, 20.6 assists, 7.8 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 44.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 71.3 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 86.4 points, 34.2 rebounds, 20.8 assists, 7.4 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 46.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 77.9 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">INJURIES: Dream: Jordin Canada: out (hamstring).<\/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 (25-14, 14-8 Western Conference) at Atlanta Dream (24-13, 12-6 Eastern Conference) College Park,&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-110792","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\/110792","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=110792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110792\/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=110792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}