Aces guard Chelsea Gray, center Kiah Stokes out for Game 4 - ESPN

NEW YORK — The Las Vegas Aces will be without two starters, point guard Chelsea Gray and center Kiah Stokes, for Wednesday's Game 4 of the WNBA Finals vs. the New York Liberty.

Both have foot injuries and were wearing boots at Tuesday's Aces practice at Barclays Center. Gray was on a scooter and Stokes on crutches. Neither specified exactly what the injuries were.

Gray hurt her left foot in the fourth quarter of Sunday's 87-73 Game 3 loss. Stokes was less certain when her injury occurred, saying that she woke up after the game with pain in her right foot and called it, «kind of a WTF moment.»

Aces coach Becky Hammon did not say that both players are ruled out of a potential Game 5 back in Las Vegas on Friday. That door seems slightly open for Stokes. However, Gray's answers indicated she was not expecting to play again this best-of-five series, which the Aces lead 2-1.

Asked if this will keep her out long-term beyond the end of the series, Gray — who is expected to be part of the 2024 U.S. Olympic team — said, «I really don't know. Waiting to talk to people, and we'll go from there.

»I haven't had a big injury in over 10 years. It's a little bit of a weird feeling like, 'I haven't been in this position in a while.' I was trying to [walk it off] Sunday. That was my thought process at first."

Gray, who was WNBA Finals MVP last year when the Aces won their first championship, suffered knee injuries that cut short her junior and senior seasons for the Duke Blue Devils in 2013 and 2014. But she's been healthy most of her WNBA career, and had missed only one game previously in her three seasons with the Aces.

«You get to the Finals and you don't get this time back. So it sucks in that way,» Gray said. «But I'm excited still to