{"id":134261,"date":"2025-09-05T08:08:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/134261\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T08:08:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:08:34","slug":"las-vegas-aces-defeat-minnesota-lynx-97-87-for-13th-consecutive-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/134261\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Aces defeat Minnesota Lynx 97-87 for 13th consecutive win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">The Lynx were led by Natisha Hiedeman, who came off the bench to score 22 points. Courtney Williams scored 14 points, Alanna Smith 13 and Napheesa Collier \u2014 who suffered an ankle injury in that previous game in Las Vegas that sidelined her seven games \u2014 added 12 for the Lynx.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cWe can\u2019t just rely on our offense,\u201d Hiedeman said. \u201cWe just didn\u2019t play defense. It\u2019s hard to win games like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">The Aces, who led 47-44 at halftime, opened a 63-55 lead midway through the third quarter. The Lynx, sparked by Hiedeman\u2019s seven consecutive points, pulled within 63-62 with 2\u00bd minutes left in the quarter. They had a chance to take the lead, but Jessica Shepard missed two free throws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">The Aces (27-14) got a three-pointer from Young and a buzzer-beating layup from Chelsea Gray in the final minute of the quarter to take a 70-66 lead into the final period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lynx were led by Natisha Hiedeman, who came off the bench to score 22 points. Courtney Williams&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-134261","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\/134261","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=134261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}