{"id":96721,"date":"2025-08-20T11:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/96721\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T11:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:52:07","slug":"atlanta-dream-game-recap-for-tuesday-august-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/96721\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Dream game recap for Tuesday August 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dream lost 74-72 to the Aces on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson had 32 points, 12 rebounds and five blocks to help the Las Vegas Aces win their eighth straight game, a 74-72 victory over the Atlanta Dream on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson, who entered averaging 28.4 points and 14.4 rebounds in her last five games, secured her 116th career double-double \u2014 and 33rd with at least 30 points and 10 rebounds. It was Wilson&#8217;s third straight 30-point game and third career game with 30-plus points, 10-plus rebounds and five-plus blocks \u2014 the most in WNBA history, surpassing Atlanta&#8217;s Brittney Griner as well as Candace Parker.<\/p>\n<p>Jackie Young added 16 points and Chelsea Gray had eight points, seven rebounds and 11 assists for Las Vegas (22-14). Wilson, who was 12-of-24 from the field, became the youngest and fastest player in WNBA history to reach 2,000 career made field goals.<\/p>\n<p>Rhyne Howard had 19 points and six assists for Atlanta (22-13), which had won seven of its last eight games. Allisha Gray and Griner each added 16 points.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta scored the final five points of the third quarter and the opening six of the fourth for a 67-57 lead. But the Aces scored the next 13 points to take a 70-67 lead on Jewell Loyd\u2019s 3-pointer.<\/p>\n<p>The Dream went nearly six minutes without scoring in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Howard sank a contested 3-pointer with 1:37 left to tie it at 72-all before Wilson answered with a jumper at the other end.<\/p>\n<p>The Dream made a defensive stop and called a timeout with 15.9 seconds left, but Howard missed a floater in the lane and the Aces secured the rebound.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dream lost 74-72 to the Aces on Tuesday night. LAS VEGAS \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson had 32 points,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-96721","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\/96721","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=96721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}