{"id":25058,"date":"2025-10-01T04:58:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T04:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=25058"},"modified":"2025-10-01T04:58:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T04:58:39","slug":"las-vegas-hold-off-indiana-in-overtime-to-reach-third-wnba-finals-in-four-years-wnba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=25058","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas hold off Indiana in overtime to reach third WNBA finals in four years | WNBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A\u2019ja Wilson scored 35 points and Jackie Young had 32 to lead the Aces back to the WNBA finals as Las Vegas held off pesky Indiana 107-98 in overtime in the deciding Game 5 of the semi-final series on Tuesday night after the already-depleted Fever lost another star player to injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The second-seeded Aces, who won the league title in 2022 and 2023, will host the fourth-seeded Phoenix Mercury on Friday in the opener of the best-of-seven championship series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">No 6 seed Indiana made Las Vegas work for it even though the sixth-seeded Fever have been decimated by injuries, with star Kelsey Mitchell going down in the third quarter of Game 5 with an apparent left leg injury. She joined a list of injured Fever players that includes Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Mitchell had scored a team-high 15 points at the time of her injury. Six Fever players reached double digits, including Odyssey Sims with 27 points and Natasha Howard with 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u2019ja Wilson scored 35 points and Jackie Young had 32 to lead the Aces back to the WNBA finals as Las Vegas held off pesky Indiana 107-98 in overtime in the deciding Game 5 of the semi-final series on Tuesday night after the already-depleted Fever lost another star player to injury. The second-seeded Aces, who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[410,1562,1484,2891,15163,3394,2892,3102,637],"class_list":{"0":"post-25058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-finals","9":"tag-hold","10":"tag-indiana","11":"tag-las","12":"tag-overtime","13":"tag-reach","14":"tag-vegas","15":"tag-wnba","16":"tag-years"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}