{"id":64703,"date":"2025-08-07T08:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/64703\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T08:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:50:09","slug":"aja-wilson-scores-27-points-in-the-aces-78-72-victory-over-the-valkyries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/64703\/","title":{"rendered":"A\u2019ja Wilson scores 27 points in the Aces\u2019 78-72 victory over the Valkyries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson scored 27 points, Jackie Young and Jewell Loyd each added 14 points and the Las Vegas Aces beat the Golden State Valkyries 78-72 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas (16-14) ended the third quarter on a 13-4 run for a 64-54 lead, then went scoreless in the fourth until the 6:05 mark as Golden State got as close as 66-63. A 5-0 run by the Aces, highlighted by a 3-pointer by Loyd, made it 74-65 with 2:47 left.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson sealed it with two free throws with 34.9 seconds left.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson finished 8 of 11 from the field and 11 of 11 at the free-throw line. She also had two blocks in the first quarter to become the 10th player in WNBA history with 500.<\/p>\n<p>Tiffany Hayes scored 14 points and Janelle Salaun added 13 for Golden State (14-15). Carla Leite and Kaila Charles each added 11.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas led 43-38 at halftime behind 14 points from Wilson. The Aces took the lead for good on Young\u2019s 3-pointer with 4:49 left in the third at 51-48.<\/p>\n<p>Dana Evans gave Las Vegas the first double-digit lead of the game at 62-52 with 46 seconds left in the third.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP WNBA: <a href=\": https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball\" target=\"_blank\" title=\": https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson scored 27 points, Jackie Young and Jewell Loyd each added 14 points&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-64703","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\/64703","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=64703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}