{"id":746352,"date":"2026-07-06T11:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/746352\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T11:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:26:13","slug":"fever-without-caitlin-clark-beat-aja-wilson-less-aces-84-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/746352\/","title":{"rendered":"Fever, without Caitlin Clark, beat A’ja Wilson-less Aces 84-68"},"content":{"rendered":"

LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Kelsey Mitchell scored 27 points, Aliyah Boston totaled 18 points and 10 rebounds and Indiana beat the Aces for the first time in Las Vegas 84-68 with a couple of All-Stars sidelined on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas played without A\u2019ja Wilson, the four-time league MVP who has missed three straight games with an ankle injury, and Indiana\u2019s Caitlin Clark was held out for a third game as she recovers from a back injury. Both players were selected to start in the All-Star Game on July 25 in Chicago.<\/p>\n

Wilson and Clark are both expected back soon. Aces coach Becky Hammon said before the game that had it been a playoff game Wilson most likely would have played. Clark has returned to practice this week.<\/p>\n

Mitchell made 7 of 18 shots and 10 of 12 free throws for Indiana (12-8) and Boston posted her sixth double-double this season. Lexie Hull scored 10.<\/p>\n

Jackie Young had 15 points for Las Vegas (15-6) in its lowest-scoring game of the season. Jewell Loyd scored 12, and Chelsea Gray contributed 10 points and six assists.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas led 24-23 after one quarter and Indiana led 42-41 at halftime on Hull\u2019s jumper that just beat the buzzer. <\/p>\n

Boston, Sophie Cunningham and Mitchell made three 3-pointers apiece and each of them sank one in a 9-2 third-quarter run for a 56-49 lead. Mitchell was fouled beyond the arc and made three free throws before adding a three-point play, and Raven Johnson followed with a layup to put the Fever up 64-51 with three minutes left.<\/p>\n

Indiana led 68-55 after three quarters and maintained a double-digit lead in the fourth.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Indiana: At Los Angeles on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas: At Portland on Thursday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP WNBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Kelsey Mitchell scored 27 points, Aliyah Boston totaled 18 points and 10 rebounds and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[650,2648,20509,402,52746,1760,7636,8262,2652,2839,6815,7638,649,4806,2114,4677,5621,1058,1060,255599,4805,99,434,13017],"class_list":["post-746352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-aja-wilson","tag-aliyah-boston","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-basketball","tag-becky-hammon","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-chelsea-gray","tag-in-state-wire","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-fever","tag-indiana-hoosiers","tag-jackie-young","tag-jewell-loyd","tag-kelsey-mitchell","tag-las-vegas","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-lexie-hull","tag-nevada","tag-nv-state-wire","tag-portland-pilots","tag-sophie-cunningham","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746352","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=746352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}