Las Vegas Aces take championship party to Raiders game<\/a><\/p>\n“The past two championships, we were kind of on top the whole year, and so this one, just kind of had to claw our way back into it,” Young said, explaining that the team trusted their process and put in the work to rebound for a franchise-record 17-game winning streak.<\/p>\n
She admitted she did not expect to achieve this level of success with the Aces when she entered the league in 2019.<\/p>\n
“I think you dream of just getting one, and sometimes it takes your whole career,” Young said.<\/p>\n
With the WNBA seeing its popularity explode right now, she said she’s excited to set a standard for a younger generation.<\/p>\n
“I know when I was a little girl, I looked up to Candace Parker,” Young said about the two-time WNBA MVP and one-time Aces teammate. “And so, if I could just be this person that the little girls look up to, then that means you’re doing something right.”<\/p>\n
Fans who couldn’t make it to see Young on Tuesday will get another chance to cheer for her at the Aces’ championship celebration<\/a> on Friday, Oct. 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 Las Vegas Aces guard Jackie Young knows all about finger rolls, but she got…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2234,6818,7638,4677,125035,99,7245,8315,434],"class_list":["post-225635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-championship","tag-fans","tag-jackie-young","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-raising-canes","tag-sports","tag-success","tag-title","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225635","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=225635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}