Aces beat reporter Callie Lawson-Freeman joins host Heidi Fang to recap what’s gone right defensively for the team, how they’re stringing together wins and how they can carry that momentum into a featured game at T-Mobile Arena against the Indiana Fever on July 2nd.
The Aces signed free agent forward Angel McCoughtry on Monday. McCoughtry, 33, is a five-time WNBA All-Star, who averaged 19.1 points, 5.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists in nine seasons with the Atlanta Dream.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority gave a hard-hat tour of the construction site at Paradise Road and Convention Center Drive of the building that 14½ months from now will be teeming with thousands of people attending CES in 2021
Las Vegas native and avid Aces fan Trevor La Porte jokingly asked on Twitter for $250 to fund a tattoo of Dearica Hamby’s miraculous game-winning shot against the Chicago Sky. Except Hamby wasn’t joking, and reached out to La Porte offering to pay for it. La Porte booked an appointment with local artist Kenneth Marañon, who hadn’t done a sports portrait before. So Hamby wired him the money, and La Porte got the tattoo Saturday during a three-hour session at Beloved Family Tattoo Studio. “I think it looks great,” Hamby wrote in an email. “I think it’s cool I could create memories for people like that.”
The Las Vegas Aces are 2-2 against the Washington Mystics. The Aces rising to the challenge and overcoming the Mystics defense. Liz Cambage leading the night with 28 points and 6 rebounds. (James Schaeffer/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Aces closed out their first campaign in front of the 5,737 on hand for Fan Appreciation Day at Mandalay Bay Events Center. They lost 93-78 to the Atlanta Dream. (Sam Gordon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Las Vegas Aces closed out their first campaign in front of the 5,737 on hand for Fan Appreciation Day at Mandalay Bay Events Center. Aces lose, 93-78. (WNBA)
A’ja Wilson talks about the Las Vegas Aces after their loss to Dallas on Friday, August 17. (Sam Gordon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Aces fell to the Dallas Wings 107-102 on Friday night and were eliminated from postseason contention, Both teams were 14-18 entering the game and the Wings hold the tiebreaker, rendering the results of Sunday’s season finale null.
The Aces snapped a five-game losing streak and preserved the possibility of the postseason with a 92-74 victory over the Indiana Fever before an announced crowd of 5,213. (WNBA)
The Aces lost their fifth straight game — 89-73 to the defending WNBA champion Minnesota Lynx on Thursday night at Mandalay Bay Events Center
A’ja Wilson paid respect to Minnesota Lynx superstar Maya Moore after Moore scored 34 points against the Aces. (Sam Gordon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Bryan Salmond is in studio with Las Vegas Aces beat reporter Sam Gordon talking about the season so far and how the Aces have gone from the worst team in the WNBA to just 1.5 games out of the playoffs.
Kayla McBride scored 27 points, including a late layup off a steal, as the Aces beat the Phoenix Mercury 85-82 on Thursday night.
Aces rookie forward A’ja Wilson is an all-star. Aces fifth-year guard Kayla McBride is an all-star, too. Wilson is enjoying one of the best rookie seasons in WNBA history, averaging 19.9 points, 8.7 rebounds and 1.7 blocks per game. McBride is having a career year, averaging 19.1 points per game on 46.4 percent shooting, including 40.7 percent from 3-point range.
Aces lose to Sparks at Mandalay Bay Events Center. (NBA video)
Kayla McBride had 24 points, a career-high tying nine assists and seven rebounds to help the Las Vegas Aces beat the Minnesota Lynx 85-77 on Friday night for their fourth straight win.
Highlights of the Aces’ 84-40 win over the Chicago Sky on Thursday, July 5, 2018 (WNBA)
Jantel Lavender scored 17 points and the Los Angeles Sparks snapped a two-game skid with an 87-71 win over the Las Vegas Aces on Sunday.
Highlight from the Aces’ 94-78 win over the Los Angeles Sparks on Friday, June 29, 2018.
Kayla McBride’s career-high 38 points and 22 points and 15 rebounds from A’ja Wilson were wasted in a 97-91 loss to Dallas before an announced crowd of 5,246. (WNBA)
The Aces surrendered a 3-pointer 44 seconds into their showdown with the defending WNBA champion Lynx at Mandalay Bay Events Center, and trailed the entire game en route to an 88-73 loss before an announced crowd of 4,816. (WNBA)
Las Vegas Aces defeat New York Liberty at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. (WNBA)
Statue of Liberty on Las Vegas Strip dons Aces jersey
A’ja Wilson had 25 points and 15 rebounds and the Las Vegas Aces pulled away in the fourth quarter to beat the Seattle Storm 87-77 on Tuesday night.
The Dallas Wings beat the Las Vegas Aces 77-67 on Friday,June 5, 2018.(WNBA)
