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Aces Snap Four-Game Home Losing Streak With 90-77 Win Over Indiana Thursday

Aces coach Becky Hammon and her red hoodie

 

Aces’ Riquna Williams

 

Golden Knights players’ Logan Thompson and Keegan Kolesar in the house.

 

A’ja Wilson

Story by Alan Snel   Photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell

Aces coach Becky Hammon switched to the red hoodie under her black blazer and that’s all it took for Las Vegas to break a four-game home losing streak Thursday.

The Aces played a solid first half, leading, 52-32, after 20 minutes en route to the 90-77 decision over the Indiana Fever. The Aces improved their record to 19-8, while Indiana dropped to 5-23. Las Vegas plays the LA Sparks Saturday.

Attendance was announced at 5,737.

The Aces had lost four straight games at Michelob Ultra Arena, starting with the infamous 28-point blown lead against Chicago June 21. The Aces then lost to Washington, New York and Atlanta two days ago.

But Las Vegas flipped the script tonight as point guard Chelsea Gray played one of her best games of the season. In the first half alone Gray registered 12 points and seven assists. A’ja Wilson scored 14 points in the first half.

Chelsea Gray with a solid game tonight.

 

Aces owner Mark Davis and Aces team president Nikki Fargas

 

Wilson led Aces scorers with 23 points, while Young chipped in with 16. Gray finished with 14 and Dearica Hamby scored 10. Kelsey Plum was limited to nine points on 4-for-10 shooting.

The Aces made 48 percent of their field goal attempts, including 8-of-26 from three-point land (31 percent).

NaLyssa Smith led the Fever with 24 points.


 

Alan Snel: Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.
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