{"id":713370,"date":"2026-06-19T10:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/713370\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T10:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:27:13","slug":"las-vegas-aces-clinch-spot-in-2026-wnba-commissioners-cup-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/713370\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Aces clinch spot in 2026 WNBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LAS VEGAS (<a href=\"http:\/\/fox5vegas.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"http:\/\/fox5vegas.com\/\">FOX5<\/a>) \u2014 The Las Vegas Aces will represent the Western Conference in the 2026 WNBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup championship game after advancing to the title matchup for the third time in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Aces earned their spot by finishing 6-1 in Commissioner\u2019s Cup play, sealing a berth in the league\u2019s in-season tournament final, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">MORE ON FOX5: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5vegas.com\/2026\/06\/17\/wnba-expanding-50-game-regular-season-starting-2027\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fox5vegas.com\/2026\/06\/17\/wnba-expanding-50-game-regular-season-starting-2027\/\">WNBA expanding to 50-game regular season starting in 2027<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 CLINCHED \ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>With tonight&#8217;s win, the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LVAces?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@LVAces<\/a> will represent the Western Conference in the 2026 WNBA Commissioner&#8217;s Cup Championship Game presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/coinbase?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@coinbase<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Aces advance to the Championship for the third time in franchise history and go 6-1 in Commissioner&#8217;s Cup play! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3JUsHzHZXn\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/3JUsHzHZXn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WNBA (@WNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WNBA\/status\/2067462515659772195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The championship <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WNBA\/status\/2067468385399504959?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WNBA\/status\/2067468385399504959?s=20\">game is scheduled for June 30<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KVVU. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (FOX5) \u2014 The Las Vegas Aces will represent the Western Conference in the 2026 WNBA Commissioner\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[307564,307566,307563,4677,307565,307568,99,434,296613,307567],"class_list":["post-713370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-2026-commissioners-cup","tag-aces-represent-western-conference","tag-commissioners-cup-championship-game","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-las-vegas-aces-schedule","tag-las-vegas-sports-news","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-commissioners-cup","tag-wnba-in-season-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713370","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=713370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}