Indiana Fever (24-20, 13-8 Eastern Conference) at Las Vegas Aces (30-14, 16-8 Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Las Vegas; Tuesday, 9:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
WNBA PLAYOFFS SEMIFINALS:<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Las Vegas Aces face the Indiana Fever.<\/p>\n
The Aces have gone 17-5 at home. Las Vegas ranks fifth in the Western Conference in team defense, giving up 80.7 points while holding opponents to 43.6% shooting.<\/p>\n
The Fever have gone 11-11 away from home. Indiana is fourth in the WNBA, averaging 8.3 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 34.6% from deep. Kelsey Mitchell leads the team, averaging 2.5 makes while shooting 39.4% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
Las Vegas is shooting 43.9% from the field this season, 1.0 percentage point lower than the 44.9% Indiana allows to opponents. Indiana averages 84.9 points per game, 4.2 more than the 80.7 Las Vegas allows.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: A’ja Wilson is averaging 23.4 points, 10.2 rebounds, 3.1 assists, 1.6 steals and 2.3 blocks for the Aces. Jackie Young is averaging 18.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Aliyah Boston is averaging 15 points, 8.2 rebounds and 3.7 assists for the Fever. Mitchell is averaging 21.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Aces: 7-3, averaging 86.4 points, 30.5 rebounds, 22.2 assists, 9.3 steals and 5.5 blocks per game while shooting 48.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 75.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
Fever: 7-3, averaging 82.5 points, 32.7 rebounds, 18.5 assists, 7.3 steals and 2.1 blocks per game while shooting 44.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 76.9 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Aces: None listed.<\/p>\n
Fever: Sydney Colson: out for season (knee), Chloe Bibby: out for season (knee), Caitlin Clark: out for season (groin), Sophie Cunningham: out for season (knee), Aari McDonald: out for season (foot).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever (24-20, 13-8 Eastern Conference) at Las Vegas Aces (30-14, 16-8 Western Conference) Las Vegas; Tuesday, 9:30…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-191365","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\/191365","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=191365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}