{"id":466356,"date":"2023-10-19T09:56:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=466356"},"modified":"2023-10-19T09:57:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:57:47","slug":"aces-defeat-liberty-70-69-to-successfully-defend-their-wnba-title","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/aces-defeat-liberty-70-69-to-successfully-defend-their-wnba-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Aces defeat Liberty 70-69 to successfully defend their WNBA title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Las Vegas Aces edged out the New York Liberty 70-69 in a tightly-contested match of Game 4 of the playoffs to lift the WNBA trophy for second consecutive time, the first team to do so in 21 years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfc6 \ud835\uddd5\ud835\uddd4\ud835\uddd6\ud835\uddde-\ud835\udde7\ud835\udde2-\ud835\uddd5\ud835\uddd4\ud835\uddd6\ud835\uddde \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>The Las Vegas Aces are your 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WNBA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WNBA<\/a> Champions!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RaiseTheStakes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RaiseTheStakes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jobnzWovzM\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/jobnzWovzM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Las Vegas Aces (@LVAces) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LVAces\/status\/1714829217626550779?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A&#8217;ja Wilson was once again the star of the show as she bagged home 24 points with 16 rebounds to inspire Las Vegas to victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s not easy, as you know. This is what it\u2019s all about,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cNot a lot of people get to do it. To be short-handed and win is amazing. It makes the win that much better. It\u2019s hard to get back to the Finals to win again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is a historical triumph as the Aces join the Los Angeles Sparks(2001-02) and the Houston Comets(1997-2000) as the only teams to defend their title.<\/p>\n<p>Even more impressive, they did it without key players such as Chelsea Grey and Kiah Stokes, who sustained foot injuries in Game 3.<\/p>\n<p>With the game tied at 64, Las Vegas scored six straight points, including the first four by Jackie Young, to go ahead 70-64 with 1:26 left.<\/p>\n<p>Courtney Vandersloot hit a 3-pointer on New York\u2019s possession, then stole the ball from Kelsey Plum, which led to Sabrina Ionescu\u2019s foul-line jumper to get the Liberty within one with 41.7 seconds left.<\/p>\n<p>A key stop towards the end with just seconds left was all the Aces needed to secure the win and be crowned champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Las Vegas Aces edged out the New York Liberty 70-69 in a tightly-contested match of Game 4 of the playoffs to lift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":466359,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[21822,21820,21821],"acf":{"announce":"A hard-fought win has earned the Las Vegas team silverware","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466358,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466356\/revisions\/466358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466356"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=466356"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=466356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}