{"id":799015,"date":"2026-08-02T09:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T09:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/799015\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T09:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T09:10:08","slug":"las-vegas-aces-fall-at-buzzer-in-chicago-las-vegas-sun-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/799015\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Aces fall at buzzer in Chicago –\nLas Vegas Sun News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026 | 8:01 p.m.<\/p>\n

Sydney Taylor hit a 3-pointer with less than a second remaining and finished with 29 points as the Chicago Sky beat the Las Vegas Aces 84-83 on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Taylor broke from the lane and curled around a screen at the top of the key to take an inbounds pass from Natasha Cloud for\u00a0the catch-and-shoot winner<\/a>\u00a0that ended the Sky’s seven-game losing streak against the defending champions. It also gave first-year Chicago coach Tyler his first win against his former team.<\/p>\n

Chicago took a timeout and advanced the ball after A’ja Wilson, who scored 36 points, made a layup with 3.2 seconds left.<\/p>\n

Cloud had 11 points and DiJonai Carrington 10 for the Sky (11-18), who were 0-6 in overtime and one-score games.<\/p>\n

Jackie Young had 18 points and 11 rebounds for the Aces (20-9). Wilson also had a double-double with 12 rebounds. NaLyssa Smith added 17 points and Las Vegas reserves contributed just five points.<\/p>\n

The Sky were down 10 with 7 1\/2 minutes to play before taking a 79-78 lead on a basket by Elizabeth Williams with 2:25 to go. It was their first lead since 11-9.<\/p>\n

Young had 10 points, six rebounds and two assists as the Aces built a 20-16 lead after one quarter. She had the last two 3-pointers and Las Vegas had three in a 9-0 run that turned an 11-9 deficit into an 18-11 lead.<\/p>\n

Wilson had nine points in the second quarter and the Aces led 40-37 at the half.<\/p>\n

Wilson scored 13 points in the third quarter when the Aces turned a one-point lead into a 13-point edge and taking a 65-55 advantage into the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026 | 8:01 p.m. Sydney Taylor hit a 3-pointer with less than a second remaining…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-799015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799015","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=799015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}