LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson had 32 points, 12 rebounds and five blocks to help the Las Vegas Aces win their eighth straight game, 74-72 victory over the Atlanta Dream on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s 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 Brittney Griner and Candace Parker.<\/p>\n
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
Rhyne Howard had 19 points and six assists for led Atlanta (22-13), which had won seven of its last eight games. Allisha Gray and Griner each added 16 points.<\/p>\n
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
The Dream went nearly six minutes without scoring in the fourth.<\/p>\n
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
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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson had 32 points, 12 rebounds and five blocks to help the Las…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-98392","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\/98392","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=98392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}