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Aces beats Storm, equals WNBA’s best 22-game start

Basketball
Published 21.07.2023
Aces beats Storm, equals WNBA’s best 22-game start

A’ja Wilson recorded 23 factors, 15 rebounds and three blocked photographs to assist the Las Vegas Aces notch a 79-63 victory over the host Seattle Storm on Thursday evening.

Jackie Young added 22 factors and eight rebounds and Kelsey Plum had 20 factors and 6 assists as Las Vegas received its fourth straight sport. The Aces (20-2) additionally tied the 1998 Houston Comets and 2016 Los Angeles Sparks for the most effective 22-game begins in WNBA historical past.

Las Vegas is 3-0 towards Seattle this season, successful by a mean of 30 factors.

Jewell Loyd scored a season-low 12 factors on 3-of-13 taking pictures for the Storm (4-17). Loyd entered the competition with a league-best 25.7 scoring common.

Ezi Magbegor had 12 factors, seven rebounds and three blocked photographs, and Jordan Horston added 11 factors for Seattle, which misplaced its eighth straight sport. The Storm fell to 2-10 at residence.

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Las Vegas shot 43.9 % from the sector and was 7 of 18 from 3-point vary.

Seattle shot 38.7 %, together with 7 of 26 from 3-point vary.

Las Vegas led by 11 at halftime then used an 8-0 run early within the half to take a 47-30 lead. Young hit two treys in the course of the run and Plum capped it with a layup with 8:04 left within the third quarter.

The Aces had one other 8-0 burst later within the quarter as Young nailed a trey, Wilson transformed a layup and Alysha Clark hit a 3-pointer to make it 60-36 with 3:09 left within the interval.

Seattle exploded with a 19-2 burst, nonetheless, together with a quarter-ending 10-2 burst. Loyd ended the third quarter with a 3-pointer with 55.8 seconds remaining to convey the Storm inside 62-46.

Seattle continued its run with 9 straight factors to open the ultimate stanza. Horston scored 4 in a row, Mercedes Russell made a layup and Sami Whitcomb buried a 3-pointer to convey Seattle inside 62-55 with 6:36 remaining.

But Plum and Young made baskets 24 seconds aside as Las Vegas pushed the lead again into double digits.

Wilson’s basket with 3:03 left gave the Aces a 74-59 lead en path to closing out the win.

Young and Plum every scored 11 first-half factors because the Aces led 39-28 on the break.