{"id":81326,"date":"2025-08-14T04:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T04:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/81326\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T04:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T04:41:07","slug":"las-vegas-aces-beat-defending-wnba-champion-new-york-liberty-aces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/81326\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Aces beat defending WNBA champion New York Liberty | Aces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Aces defeated the New York Liberty 83-77 at Michelob Ultra Arena on Wednesday. It was the team\u2019s first regular-season win against the Liberty, the defending WNBA champions, since Aug. 17, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Guard Jewell Loyd led the Aces (19-14) with 21 points off the bench. Reigning MVP A\u2019ja Wilson added 17 points and 16 rebounds in her team\u2019s fifth straight win.<\/p>\n<p>Emma Meesseman recorded 24 points for the Liberty (21-12), who were without Breanna Stewart, Nyara Sabally and Isabelle Harrison due to injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Aces were 1-7 in their last eight games against the Liberty before Wednesday\u2019s matchup.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Callie Fin at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/sports\/aces\/aces-beat-reigning-wnba-champs-extend-winning-streak-to-5-3421422\/mailto:cfin@reviewjournal.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cfin@reviewjournal.com.<\/a> Follow <a data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/x.com\/@CallieJLaw\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/@CallieJLaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@CallieJLaw<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Aces defeated the New York Liberty 83-77 at Michelob Ultra Arena on Wednesday. It was the team\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-81326","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\/81326","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=81326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}