Friday night began with a pivotal Game 3 between the No. 2 Las Vegas Aces and No. 6 Indiana Fever, with the series knotted at one game apiece.<\/p>\n
A’ja Wilson and the Aces traveled to Indiana and came away with a hard-fought win, taking a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five semifinal series.<\/p>\n
The series kicked off with the Fever stunning the nation by taking Game 1 on the road, led by Kelsey Mitchell’s 34-point performance. But the Aces responded in Game 2 with a dominant 22-point win, as Wilson finished just shy of a double-double with 25 points and nine rebounds to even the series.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the top-seeded Minnesota Lynx traveled to face the No. 4 seed Phoenix Mercury in Game 3 on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Lynx opened their series at home against the Mercury with a commanding 82-69 win, as Courtney Williams led the way with 23 points and seven assists.<\/p>\n
In Game 2, the Mercury trailed by 16 at halftime and by as many as 20 points before mounting a comeback. Sami Whitcomb capped the rally with a step-back 3-pointer to force overtime, where Phoenix pulled out an 89-83 win to tie the series at 1-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday night began with a pivotal Game 3 between the No. 2 Las Vegas Aces and No. 6…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-184383","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\/184383","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=184383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}