{"id":758163,"date":"2026-07-12T07:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T07:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/758163\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T07:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T07:40:09","slug":"las-vegas-hosts-indiana-following-mitchells-29-point-performance-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/758163\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas hosts Indiana following Mitchell&#8217;s 29-point performance | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana Fever (13-9, 5-4 Eastern Conference) at Las Vegas Aces (17-6, 12-4 Western Conference)<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas; Sunday, 9 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Indiana Fever visits the Las Vegas Aces after Kelsey Mitchell scored 29 points in the Fever&#8217;s 92-89 victory against the Phoenix Mercury.<\/p>\n<p>The Aces have gone 7-4 in home games. Las Vegas leads the WNBA with 22.7 assists per game led by Chelsea Gray averaging 7.5.<\/p>\n<p>The Fever are 5-5 in road games. Indiana ranks third in the Eastern Conference with 20.6 assists per game led by Caitlin Clark averaging 7.8.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas averages 90.6 points per game, 0.9 more points than the 89.7 Indiana allows. Indiana averages 9.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.0 more made shot on average than the 8.9 per game Las Vegas gives up.<\/p>\n<p>The two teams play for the second time this season. The Fever defeated the Aces 84-68 in their last matchup on July 5. Mitchell led the Fever with 27 points, and Jackie Young led the Aces with 15 points.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Young is averaging 16.2 points and 6.7 assists for the Aces. A&#8217;ja Wilson is averaging 20.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Aliyah Boston is averaging 17.3 points and 8.7 rebounds for the Fever. Mitchell is averaging 25.1 points and 1.9 rebounds while shooting 52.2% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Aces: 7-3, averaging 88.6 points, 32.2 rebounds, 21.8 assists, 8.7 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 48.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 82.7 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Fever: 6-4, averaging 96.9 points, 35.2 rebounds, 20.2 assists, 5.5 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 49.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 92.5 points.<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Aces: Janiah Barker: out (leg), Dana Evans: out (leg).<\/p>\n<p>Fever: None listed.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Get any of our free email newsletters \u2014 news headlines, obituaries, sports, and more.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdtimes.com\/newsletters\/\" class=\"btn btn-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Explore newsletters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2022 Data Skrive. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever (13-9, 5-4 Eastern Conference) at Las Vegas Aces (17-6, 12-4 Western Conference) Las Vegas; Sunday, 9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[38088,99,434],"class_list":["post-758163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-national_sports","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758163","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=758163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}