Three-time WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson exited the Las Vegas Aces’ 97-89 loss to the Los Angeles Sparks with what the staff stated was a head harm.
Wilson was struck on the face as she went as much as defend a drive to the basket by the Sparks’ Dearica Hamby. Wilson took herself out of the sport with 1:17 left within the third quarter and instantly pulled a towel to her nostril. Wilson didn’t return.
“She was bleeding,” Aces coach Becky Hammon stated after the sport. “She’s going to go to the physician tomorrow and see what is going on on. I haven’t got something past that.”
Wilson completed with 13 factors after going 2-of-12 from the sphere and 9-of-10 from the free throw line in 28 minutes. She additionally had 8 rebounds, 5 assists and 4 blocks. Jackie Younger had 34 factors and Chelsea Grey had 28 to steer Las Vegas.
Hammon known as out staff’s effort on each ends, however particularly the protection, which allowed the Sparks to shoot 56.9% from the sphere.
“We rating 89 factors, and we solely had two good offensive manufacturing nights: Chelsea and Jackie. All people else had been stinkers,” Hammon stated. “The bench was a stinker. However 89 factors ought to be sufficient to win a recreation. You may’t surrender 50 factors at halftime. We’re nonetheless trying to find that 40-minute recreation. It is like a rattling unicorn.”
Rickea Jackson had a career-high 30 factors for the visiting Sparks, who improved to 4-7.
The Aces, WNBA champions in 2022 and 2023, are actually 4-4. They misplaced to the growth Golden State Valkyries 95-68 on Saturday in San Francisco.
Guard Jewell Loyd, the WNBA’s scoring chief in 2023, continued to battle in her first season with the Aces after 10 seasons in Seattle, ending with seven factors on 3-of-9 taking pictures Wednesday. She has scored in double figures in simply three of the Aces’ eight video games and is taking pictures 29.4% from the sphere.
“I believe she’s getting beauty, she simply has missed them,” Hammon stated. “She obtained in foul hassle, in order that’s all the time slightly little bit of a hindrance in any person’s taking part in time. However she’s doing numerous different issues proper.”
Requested if there was a consideration of transferring Loyd out of the beginning lineup, Hammon acknowledged, “Sure, it has been talked about. Introduced up by her.”
Loyd has began virtually all her profession, apart from 11 video games her rookie season in 2015 and 6 video games in 2019 when she was coping with an ankle harm.
