WNBA Best Bets: A'ja Wilson Shines as Aces Secure Win

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00:00A little WNBA action from a Wednesday night around the league also in the home stretch

00:08right before the postseason about four or five games remaining for all 12 clubs around

00:13the WNBA in history made last night in Indianapolis no not by Caitlin Clark but by Asia Wilson

00:20the best basketball player on planet earth 27 points 12 boards last night against the

00:27fever to lead Las Vegas in the Indy and they pick up an 86 75 win the aces did drop a

00:34marquee game on Sunday to the New York Liberty in that title rematch of course Asia Wilson

00:41did not play she did last night in the aces cover as a four and a half point favorite

00:48on the road 27 points 12 rebounds for Asia Wilson it was a jumper in the final 30 seconds

00:55of the opening half that moved her past Jewel Lloyd who set the record last year for the

01:00most points recorded in a single season in WNBA history she needed to get past 939

01:08she did and ended up with a tally of 956 after the victory over Indiana it's pretty

01:15incredible when you see it on a night-to-night basis because you know you see some of the

01:19statistics and the stat lines here and now with the I don't know if it's just better

01:23athletes coming into the NBA they're just in a better setting because Asia Wilson it's

01:27like 25 and 10 every night that's unheard of statistics here and it's not as if they're

01:31playing as long as like an NBA game would be where you can accumulate those statistics

01:35she's been absolutely phenomenal and when you move into the playoffs you already know

01:38the aces are a good team won the world championship before but when you're like the outside jumper

01:42isn't working and she can just kill you on the low blocks or inside the paint that's

01:47just demoralizing for the other team but again we talk about Shoaib Ohtani with what he does

01:51on a night-to-night basis it's a shame that sometimes you look at Asia Wilson say 27 and

01:5512 yep that's what she's supposed to do those are incredible stat lines in the WNBA that

01:59she does on a night-to-night basis one of the best if not maybe been the best season

02:04of all time from a WNBA player completely agree DRS you're laying juice for Asia Wilson

02:10to record 20 and 10 and the aces to win each and every time again that is the expectation

02:17Las Vegas expectation as well as to contend for a WNBA championship try to become the

02:22first three-time repeat champ since before this new millennium they were the first since

02:28the Sparks in the early 2000s to win back-to-back WNBA titles they beat the Liberty in a five

02:35game series winning three of the first four now it's New York booked as the favorite and

02:41the aces haven't been nearly as stellar as they were a year ago they were just six and

02:47five since the all-star and Olympic break entering last night for comparison's sake

02:52they were 34 and six the entirety of last season and the fever were playing really good

02:58ball and still are they've won 8 of 11 since that Olympic break in six of their last eight

03:04they've already clinched their first playoff appearance since 2016 so last night we've

03:09got the MVP runaway favorite and the rookie of the year runaway favorite as well Asia Wilson

03:15facing off against Kaitlyn Clark not a great shooting night for CeCe just making one three

03:2216 points three boards and six dimes DRS snapping a five-game streak of Kaitlyn Clark putting up

03:28at least 25 points in eight assists in five consecutive games yeah the defense was on

03:35point there for the aces no question about and also so many times we talk about the WNBA and

03:39how they match up and say boy why are they putting this game on on this day well on a non-football

03:43night you take a look at the aces and the fever I bet you they did some pretty good ratings

03:47across the league because everybody likes to watch the aces with their star power and then

03:51Kaitlyn Clark of the fever even though that game was 86 to 75 probably had some really good ratings

03:56in that one and good for them we are heading down the stretch into the playoffs here let's see some

04:00of these teams some upsets down the stretch but also more importantly you say of something what

04:04the top four that's probably the teams that you're going to be look at winning the WNBA at this point

04:09running away with things when you look at the standings right now all right a 12 team league

04:14so eight of them make the postseason last year only four teams reach the playoffs with a winning

04:19record right now the top six all have a winning record including indiana phoenix has already

04:25clinched a playoff berth despite being two games below 500 so again as we look at those WNBA title

04:32odds it is still that tier of two at the top the new york liberty and the las vegas aces but keep an

04:38eye on the minnesota lynx who have been great this year and of course the connecticut sun

04:43can do it all interesting game in the playoff realm last night out in chicago the washington

04:51mystics go into the windy city as a short one and a half point favorite and win by 30 plus over

04:57chicago of course the sky without angel reese for the end of this regular season her season done

05:03with the wrist injury that she announced over the weekend but the mystics now only

05:08a game behind the sky for that eighth and final playoff spot in the WNBA

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