A\u2019ja Wilson finished with 19 points, but the Las Vegas Aces lost 99-66 to the Phoenix Mercury on Saturday in their WNBA season opener at T-Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n
The game was a rematch of the 2025 WNBA Finals that the Aces swept en route to their third title in the past four seasons.<\/p>\n
Jackie Young added 12 points, six rebounds and three assists for the Aces.<\/p>\n
Alyssa Thomas had 20 points, nine assists and six rebounds as all five Mercury starters scored in double figures. Rookie Jovana Nogic added 19 points and made 4-of-5 from 3-point range, while Natasha Mack posted a double-double of 10 points and 15 boards.<\/p>\n
Phoenix never trailed and led 83-45 at the end of the third quarter.<\/p>\n
The Aces received their 2025 championship rings in a pregame ceremony. They play at Los Angeles on Sunday in the second of back-to-back games.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n
Contact David Schoen at dschoen@reviewjournal.com<\/a> or 702-387-5203. Follow @DavidSchoenLVRJ<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\u2019ja Wilson finished with 19 points, but the Las Vegas Aces lost 99-66 to the Phoenix Mercury on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-633698","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\/633698","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=633698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}