LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 The Las Vegas Aces return to familiar territory on Friday as they prepare to host Game 1 of the WNBA Finals.<\/p>\n
Las Vegas will take on the Phoenix Mercury at Michelob ULTRA Arena. Tipoff is scheduled for 5 p.m.<\/p>\n
This marks the third trip to the finals for the Aces in the last four seasons, and their fourth trip dating back to 2020. The team won back-to-back titles in 2022 and 2023 over Connecticut and New York, respectively.<\/p>\n
While the Finals experience isn’t new, this year’s series will mark the first time the WNBA championship is decided in a best-of-seven series. The WNBA Finals were previously decided in five games, dating back to 2005.<\/p>\n
The Aces will host Game 1 on Friday and Game 2 on Sunday, Oct. 5. The series shifts to Phoenix for Games 3 and 4 on Wednesday and Friday, Oct. 8 and 10.<\/p>\n
Both teams would return to Las Vegas for Game 5 on Sunday, Oct. 12, if necessary. Game 6 would be played in Phoenix on Wednesday, Oct. 15, and a potential winner-take-all Game 7 would be in Las Vegas on Friday, Oct. 17.<\/p>\n
These two teams last faced off in the postseason in the first round in 2022. The Aces defeated the Mercury 2-0 en route to their first championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 The Las Vegas Aces return to familiar territory on Friday as they prepare to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[115063,2234,115064,4677,100055,5551,65189,99,434,38265],"class_list":["post-199525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-best-of-seven-series","tag-championship","tag-game-1","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-michelob-ultra-arena","tag-phoenix-mercury","tag-postseason","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-finals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199525","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=199525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}