{"id":823778,"date":"2026-08-24T02:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/823778\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T02:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:50:08","slug":"nalyssa-smith-suffers-knee-injury-in-las-vegas-aces-game-vs-toronto-tempo-aces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/823778\/","title":{"rendered":"NaLyssa Smith suffers knee injury in Las Vegas Aces\u2019 game vs Toronto Tempo | Aces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/sports\/aces\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Las Vegas Aces<\/a> forward NaLyssa Smith suffered a non-contact left knee injury during the third quarter of Sunday\u2019s matchup against the Toronto Tempo in Vancouver, British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>Following a steal by Jewell Loyd, Las Vegas pushed the ball in transition, with Jackie Young finding Smith cutting toward the basket. Smith came down awkwardly while attempting to corral the pass and immediately grabbed her left knee.<\/p>\n<p>Smith was evaluated by the Aces\u2019 training staff before being helped off the court. She was unable to put weight on her left leg as she was escorted toward the Aces\u2019 locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, who leads the WNBA in field-goal percentage, has averaged 11.8 points and 6.4 rebounds over 37 games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Aces forward NaLyssa Smith suffered a non-contact left knee injury during the third quarter of Sunday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-823778","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\/823778","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=823778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}