LAS VEGAS \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson scored 34 points and became the fastest player in WNBA history to reach 6,000 career points as the Las Vegas Aces defeated the Seattle Storm 101-91 on Monday night.<\/p>\n
Wilson added 12 rebounds, nine assists, and three blocks, reaching the milestone in her 278th career game to surpass Diana Taurasi\u2019s previous record of 291 games. She secured a double-double with an offensive rebound just over five minutes remaining and then hit a jumper from the free-throw line to eclipse 6,000 points.<\/p>\n
Wilson finished 10 for 19 from the field, including 3 of 7 from 3-point range, and made 11 of 13 free throws.<\/p>\n
Jackie Young added 29 points for Las Vegas (8-3), while NaLyssa Smith had 16 points and nine rebounds. Chelsea Gray contributed 12 points and eight assists. Former Storm star Jewell Loyd scored five points on 2-of-7 shooting against her former team.<\/p>\n
Dominique Malonga led Seattle (3-10) with 19 points, and Natisha Hiedeman added 17. Awa Fam scored 16 points, and Flau\u2019jae Johnson finished with 13 as the Storm fell to 1-6 on the road.<\/p>\n
Las Vegas used a 19-6 run to open the second quarter and took a 50-43 lead into halftime behind Wilson\u2019s 21 first-half points.<\/p>\n
Young hit the Aces\u2019 10th 3-pointer of the game to push Las Vegas past the 100-point mark with 1:05 remaining.<\/p>\n
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Las Vegas: Plays at Portland on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson scored 34 points and became the fastest player in WNBA history to reach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-692956","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\/692956","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=692956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}