{"id":87226,"date":"2025-08-16T12:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T12:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/87226\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T12:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T12:42:13","slug":"mercury-fall-to-aces-after-saballys-3-blocked-at-buzzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/87226\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury fall to Aces after Sabally&#8217;s 3 blocked at buzzer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson had 30 points and 16 rebounds, and the Las Vegas Aces used a block at the buzzer beat the Phoenix Mercury 86-83 on Friday night for their sixth straight victory.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea Gray, who scored 10 of her 16 points in the fourth quarter, made a jumper from the free throw line with 1:14 remaining for an 84-79 lead. Phoenix scored the next four points to get within one on <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/wnba\/phoenix-mercury\/mercury-win-streak\/3592335\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alyssa Thomas<\/a>\u2018 layup with 30 seconds left.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson was short on a long jumper with the shot clock winding down and Phoenix called a timeout with 3.6 seconds left. Gray stole Phoenix\u2019s poor inbounds pass and she made two free throws with 0.8 seconds left.<\/p>\n<p>Gray also <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DesertWaveCo\/status\/1956567908731298106\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">blocked Satou Sabally\u2019s 3-point attempt at the buzzer<\/a> to seal it.<\/p>\n<p>Jackie Young had 17 points, seven rebounds and five assists for Las Vegas (20-14). Gray also had a season-high nine assists.<\/p>\n<p>Sabally led Phoenix (19-13) with 26 points. Thomas had 15 points, nine assists and six rebounds, and Kahleah Copper also scored 15 points. DeWanna Bonner added 12 off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson had 20 points and nine rebounds in the first half, but the Aces still trailed 42-41 at the break. Wilson secured her 16th double-double of the season in the opening minute of the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas started the third on a 10-1 run, with four points apiece by Wilson and NaLyssa Smith, to take a 51-43 lead. But Phoenix ended the period on an 11-2 run to cut its deficit to 60-59.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix has lost nine of its last 16 after starting the year 12-4.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AZSports\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @AZSports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755283209_633_AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755283209_633_AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson had 30 points and 16 rebounds, and the Las Vegas Aces used a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[4404,2976,4403,99,434],"class_list":["post-87226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-arizona-sports-now-on-98-7-fm","tag-home","tag-phoenix-arizona-sports-news-phoenix-breaking-sports-news","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87226","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=87226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}