{"id":31070,"date":"2025-07-23T11:17:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T11:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/31070\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T11:17:18","slug":"wilsons-double-double-evans-spark-off-the-bench-lead-aces-past-dream-87-72-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/31070\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson&#8217;s double-double, Evans&#8217; spark off the bench lead Aces past Dream 87-72"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 A&#8217;ja Wilson had 24 points and 12 rebounds, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/dana-evans-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dana Evans<\/a> provided a spark off the bench and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/las-vegas-aces-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Aces<\/a> won three straight games for the first time this season with an 87-72 victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/atlanta-dream-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Dream<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Evans scored the first nine points of the second quarter to give the Aces the lead for good and finished with 14 points. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/jackie-young-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackie Young<\/a> added 14 points for Las Vegas (12-11), which plays its next four on the road. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/nalyssa-smith-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NaLyssa Smith<\/a> had 11 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/allisha-gray-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Allisha Gray<\/a> led the Dream (13-10) with 24 points and eight rebounds. Jordan Canada added 12 points. Atlanta is without All-Star and leading scorer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/rhyne-howard-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rhyne Howard<\/a> due to a knee injury. She missed the last two games before the All-Star break and will miss at least four more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">A 3-pointer by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/te-hina-paopao-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Te-Hina Paopao<\/a> had the Dream within 68-62 with 7:48 to play, but the Aces had a seven-point run to get the lead back to 13 points and Atlanta never threatened again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">The Dream led 27-20 after one quarter behind Gray&#8217;s 12 points and a closing 15-3 run. Atlanta was 7 of 15 overall, but 5 of 8 behind the arc and were plus-8 from the foul line. The Dream were 4 of 19 from distance over the last three quarters and shot 38.5% overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Evans put the Aces up 29-27 with her second quarter run and had 11 in the quarter when Vegas had a 25-12 advantage to lead 45-39 at the half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">The Aces got the lead to 14 in the middle of the third quarter before the Dream cut the deficit to 67-59 entering the fourth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/p>\n<p>\n        recommended\n      <\/p>\n<p> Arrow pointing to the leftArrow pointing to the right <\/p>\n<p>Item 1 of 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 A&#8217;ja Wilson had 24 points and 12 rebounds, Dana Evans provided a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-31070","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\/31070","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=31070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}