{"id":743564,"date":"2026-07-04T22:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T22:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/743564\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T22:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T22:55:19","slug":"chicago-sky-lose-to-las-vegas-aces-98-90-in-overtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/743564\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Sky lose to Las Vegas Aces 98-90 in overtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 NaLyssa Smith had 29 points and eight rebounds, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WNBA\/status\/2073263247768129934\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chelsea Gray made two key jumpers in the final minute of overtime<\/a> and the short-handed Las Vegas Aces beat the Chicago Sky 98-90 on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Aces (15-5), who were without A\u2019ja Wilson (right leg) for a second straight game, scored 10 consecutive points in overtime to secure the 500th win in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>The Aces had a successful challenge with 1:08 remaining in overtime to take away a Sky basket that would have pulled them within two points. Then, Gray made a step-back jumper from the free-throw line to extend the Aces lead to 94-88 with 48 seconds left.<\/p>\n<p>Gray added another jumper from near the same spot at 17.1 to make it 96-88.<\/p>\n<p>Gray finished with 18 points and six assists, Jewell Loyd added 19 points and Jackie Young 16. Smith went 11 of 14 from the field and 7 of 10 from the free-throw line<\/p>\n<p>Skylar Diggins led the Sky (6-14) with 19 points, and Kamilla Cardoso had 16 points and 10 rebounds. Natasha Cloud added 15 points, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/07\/03\/chicago-sky-courtney-vandersloot-acl-return\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Courtney Vandersloot<\/a> and Azura Stevens each scored 11.<\/p>\n<p>The Sky took their first lead at 82-81 during a 12-0 run in the fourth quarter.\u00a0Gray tied it at 86 with 22.1 seconds left in regulation on another jumper in the paint.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Sky: at Phoenix on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Aces: vs. Indiana on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 NaLyssa Smith had 29 points and eight rebounds, Chelsea Gray made two key jumpers in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[5479,438,72701,29492,4677,7788,4386,99,434,112662],"class_list":["post-743564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-azura-stevens","tag-chicago-sky","tag-courtney-vandersloot","tag-kamilla-cardoso","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-natasha-cloud","tag-skylar-diggins","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-scores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743564","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=743564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}