{"id":790814,"date":"2026-07-29T06:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/790814\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T06:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:40:09","slug":"aja-wilson-scores-28-as-the-aces-beat-the-fire-98-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/790814\/","title":{"rendered":"A’ja Wilson scores 28 as the Aces beat the Fire 98-83"},"content":{"rendered":"

LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson finished with 28 points and 14 rebounds and the Las Vegas Aces breezed to a 98-83 victory over the Portland Fire on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Wilson hit 7 of 10 shots from the floor and 13 of 14 foul shots. The four-time league MVP scored 32 points twice to lead the Aces (19-8) to a pair of road wins over the expansion Fire earlier this season.<\/p>\n

Jackie Young scored 25 points on 9-for-14 shooting to help Las Vegas shoot 58% from the floor. Chelsea Gray totaled 17 points and Jewell Loyd added 11 off the bench.<\/p>\n

Megan DiLeo topped Portland (11-17) with 20 points and reserve Frieda Buhner scored 16.<\/p>\n

Wilson had 10 points and five rebounds in the first quarter and Las Vegas took a comfortable 36-21 lead into the second.<\/p>\n

DiLeo had a three-point play to finish off a 12-3 run to start the second period and the Fire closed within 39-33. Gray and Young had the final two baskets in a 14-4 spurt to close out the half and the Aces led 53-37. <\/p>\n

Portland never got closer than six in the third quarter and trailed by double digits throughout the fourth.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Las Vegas: Hosts New York Liberty on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Portland: Hosts Indiana Fever on Friday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP WNBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson finished with 28 points and 14 rebounds and the Las Vegas Aces…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[650,402,7636,336231,793,7638,649,4677,336230,1058,1060,3831,2232,255599,99,434,13017],"class_list":["post-790814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-aja-wilson","tag-basketball","tag-chelsea-gray","tag-frieda-buhner","tag-general-news","tag-jackie-young","tag-jewell-loyd","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-megan-dileo","tag-nevada","tag-nv-state-wire","tag-or-state-wire","tag-oregon","tag-portland-pilots","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790814","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=790814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}