Las Vegas Aces Dominate Indiana in Record-Breaking WNBA Game
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00:00So in front of a record crowd, J.Y. in Las Vegas at T-Mobile Arena, 20,366 fans in attendance,
00:12the most that have been in attendance for a WNBA game in the last 25 years since 1999.
00:19Kaitlin Cork was there for Indiana, as was Aaliyah Boston, and it was close, relatively
00:24close, through three quarters, and then the Aces showed off their championship might in
00:30the fourth and final, outscoring Indiana by 13, 23-10 in that fourth quarter to pull away
00:37for a 19-point victory, 88-69, Las Vegas covers as a 13-and-a-half-point favorite.
00:45The Aces, J.Y., are the two-time reigning WNBA champs.
00:50They have won two consecutive WNBA titles for the first time since the sports in 2001 and 2002.
00:57In this millennium in the WNBA, we have never seen a three-time repeat champion in the WNBA.
01:05Are the Aces looking to part with Chelsea Gray back in the fold?
01:09It's amazing, Ben.
01:10You get the point guard back in the lineup, and everything just kind of settles in.
01:17Aja Wilson was being Aja Wilson, you're not going to go there because she's been putting up the sats
01:21all year.
01:22But to me, it's been more the play of Jackie Young and Kelsey Plum going back to more of their
01:26two- and three-guard positions and allowing Chelsea Gray to point guard the kind of facility.
01:32Here's the thing, folks, Chelsea Gray doing the games, like last night, where she's not going to
01:37blow you away with the box score, just scoring only four points, you know, only playing 20 minutes.
01:43But getting everybody into their roles, getting everybody into offense and allowing players to do what they need to do.
01:49Obviously, Jackie Young picked up the slack without her scoring, but getting 15-10.
01:53But to me, Kelsey Plum, 34 points, 6 of 11 from 3, she was bombing from all over the floor.
01:59And then obviously, you got to talk about Aja Wilson, but shout out to Kia Stokes last night.
02:03Kia Stokes is never going to be someone who's going to score the ball.
02:06But if she can give you 12 rebounds and a plus 19 and kind of make things hard for Smith,
02:12make things hard for Boston around the basket, that's also a good sign for the Vegas Aces.