Aces star A’ja Wilson sets record with 13th 30-point game

The Las Vegas Aces won their 14th consecutive match on Sunday – equaling the fourth longer sequence of victories in the history of the WNBA – and the A’JA Wilson center has set a league record with its 13th match of 30 or more.

After the victory of the 80-66 AS on the sky of Chicago, the coach of Las Vegas, Becky Hammon, said that she sometimes thought that she had lacked adjectives to describe Wilson. She then opted for a descriptive comparison for Wilson, which could become the first MVP of the League this year. Wilson, Napheesa Collier du Minnesota and Alyssa Thomas de Phoenix are the best contenders for the price.

Hammon said some players are more like gazelles because they are fast, agile and agile. Others look more like the lions because they physically dominate enemies.

“She is the only person in the gymnasium in the world, who is both lion and gazelle,” said Hammon. “She can dance around you, or she can eat you. She is just a kind of anomaly in the way she can have an impact on a game … She does it at both ends.”

Wilson collected 31 points, 11 rebounds, 4 interceptions and 3 blocks on Sunday. It was his 10th match with the more than 30 points and more than 10 rebounds, breaking his own season for such games, established last season.

The WNBA season has developed at 44 games this season; Sunday was Wilson’s 38th game because she missed four due to an injury for 28-14 Aces.

Wilson’s current teammate, Jewell Loyd, formerly with Seattle, and Maya Moore’s star retired from Minnesota, who was inducted at the Naismith’s renowned temple on Saturday, previously held the record for 30 points in a season with 12 each. Moore did it in 2014, when she appeared in 34 games for the Lynx, on average 23.9 points per game and was MVP of the League. Loyd did it in 2023, when she appeared in 38 games for the storm and has an average of 24.7 ppg.

Throughout Sunday’s match, Wilson is on average 23.8 ppg of championship and 10.1, which is second in the WNBA in Angel Reese of Chicago. Reese did not play on Sunday because she was suspended by the team for the first half and was dealing with back problems in the second half.

Wilson also has 85 blocks and 61 interceptions, the second consecutive season, she reached 60 in both statistics. The only other WNBA players who had 60/60/60 seasons in these categories are the old MVPS Lisa Leslie (in 2005 for Los Angeles) and Yolanda Griffith (in 2000 for Sacramento).

The ACES victories sequence is tied with the Connecticut Sun, which won 14 in a row in 2021. With two games to do in the regular season, the Aces could match the Phoenix Mercury 2014 for the second longest sequence at 16 years.

Las Vegas welcomes Chicago again on Tuesday and ends in Los Angeles on Thursday. The AS remains in the running for the seeded n ° 2 in the playoffs; They are tied with Atlanta in second place. The dream ends with two games against Connecticut: at home on Monday and on the road on Wednesday.