In Win-Or-Go-Home Playoff Game, A’ja Wilson Carries Aces To WNBA Semifinals As Las Vegas Defeats Seattle, 74-73, In Thriller Thursday
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Story by LVSportsBiz.com Staff with photos from J. Tyge O’Donnell
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — OK, Las Vegas. Take a breath and breathe easy.
The Las Vegas Aces made one final decisive defensive stop against an upset-minded Seattle Storm team in an elimination playoff game Thursday night and squeezed out a hard-fought 74-73 win in Game 3 behind A’ja Wilson’s 38 points to move into the WNBA semifinals against the Indiana Fever.
“We had the faith,” Aces guard Jackie Young said after the game on the radio broadcast.
“We were pissed off after the last game,” she said of Game 2 in Seattle when the Aces blew a fourth quarter lead and lost to the Storm.
The Aces win the Best of 3 series, two games to one, to the delight of the soldout rowdy crowd of 10,409.
Sixth-seeded Indiana upset Atlanta, the number three seed, in its Game 3 tonight, so the Fever and Aces will start the Best of 5 semis here in Las Vegas on Sunday.
The Aces, led by Wilson, has made the WNBA semifinals seven straight times.
It was a grind all night between the second-seeded Aces and the seventh-seeded Seattle Storm.
Leading the way was MVP candidate Wilson, who was awarded a co-Defensive Player of the Year award tonight.
Wilson scored 38 points in 37 minutes.
Young scored the go-ahead bucket on a follow basket on a Wilson miss with 12 seconds remaining in the fourth.
The Aces have now won 18 of 19 games, winning the final 16 games of the regular season and two of three against Seattle.
