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Indiana Fever<\/a> (24-20, 13-8 Eastern Conference) at Las Vegas Aces<\/a> (30-14, 16-8 Western Conference)<\/p>\n Las Vegas; Sunday, 3 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Aces -9; over\/under is 162.5<\/p>\n WNBA<\/a> PLAYOFFS SEMIFINALS: Aces host first series matchup<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Las Vegas Aces host the Indiana Fever to open the WNBA playoffs semifinals. Indiana went 2-1 against Las Vegas during the regular season. The Fever won the last regular season meeting 80-70 on July 24. Kelsey Mitchell<\/a> led the Fever with 21 points, and A’ja Wilson led the Aces with 20 points.<\/p>\n The Aces have gone 17-5 at home. Las Vegas ranks eighth in the WNBA with 33.5 rebounds led by Wilson averaging 10.2.<\/p>\n The Fever are 11-11 on the road. Indiana is 11-10 against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n Las Vegas averages 83.6 points per game, 2.1 more points than the 81.5 Indiana allows. Indiana averages 84.9 points per game, 4.2 more than the 80.7 Las Vegas allows.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Wilson is scoring 23.4 points per game and averaging 10.2 rebounds for the Aces. Jackie Young<\/a> is averaging 17.1 points and 4.7 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Aliyah Boston<\/a> is averaging 15 points, 8.2 rebounds and 3.7 assists for the Fever. Mitchell is averaging 2.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Aces: 9-1, averaging 88.2 points, 31.3 rebounds, 24.4 assists, 8.5 steals and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 49.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 75.5 points per game.<\/p>\n Fever: 7-3, averaging 81.9 points, 34.1 rebounds, 20.5 assists, 7.7 steals and 1.9 blocks per game while shooting 44.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 74.9 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Aces: None listed.<\/p>\n Fever: Sydney Colson<\/a>: out for season (knee), Chloe Bibby<\/a>: out for season (knee), Caitlin Clark<\/a>: out for season (groin), Sophie Cunningham<\/a>: out for season (knee), Aari McDonald<\/a>: out for season (foot).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n \n What did you think of this story?\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Indiana Fever (24-20, 13-8 Eastern Conference) at Las Vegas Aces (30-14, 16-8 Western Conference) Las Vegas;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-169155","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\/169155","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=169155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}