{"id":74737,"date":"2025-08-11T13:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/74737\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:32:06","slug":"wilson-records-historic-30-20-night-in-las-vegas-aces-win-over-connecticut-sun-hartford-courant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/74737\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson records historic 30-20 night in Las Vegas Aces win over Connecticut Sun \u2013 Hartford Courant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson scored 32 points and tied a career-high with 20 rebounds to become the first player in WNBA history with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wnba\/status\/1954739575760293971?s=46\" rel=\"nofollow\">30-plus points and at least 20 rebounds<\/a> in a game as the Las Vegas Aces beat the Connecticut Sun 94-86 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson grabbed almost as many boards as Connecticut had as a team (23) as Las Vegas (18-14) won its season-best fourth straight.<\/p>\n<p>Jackie Young scored 21 points and reserves Jewell Loyd and Dana Evans scored 12 and 10 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Marina Mabrey scored 22 points, Saniya Rivers had 17 and Leila Lacan 13 for Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>The Sun built a 31-27 lead at the end of the first quarter and extended their lead to 45-33 with with 5:46 left before halftime on Tina Charles\u2019 jump shot. But the Aces outscored Connecticut 12-0 to close the half to tie it 45-all at the half.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea Gray made two free throws to put Las Vegas ahead 51-50 with 7:18 to play and it led for the remainder of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut (5-25) has now lost four straight.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP WNBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: August 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson scored 32 points and tied a career-high with 20 rebounds to become&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[4384,983,99,434],"class_list":["post-74737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-connecticut-sun","tag-local-news","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74737","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=74737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}