Aces star A'ja Wilson sets record with 13th 30-point game - ESPN

The Las Vegas Aces won their 14th game in a row Sunday — tying the fourth-longest winning streak in WNBA history — and center A'ja Wilson set a league record with her 13th game of 30 or more points.

After the Aces' 80-66 victory over the Chicago Sky, Las Vegas coach Becky Hammon said she sometimes thinks she has run out of adjectives to describe Wilson. Then she opted for a descriptive comparison for Wilson, who could become the league's first four-time MVP this year. Wilson, Minnesota's Napheesa Collier and Phoenix's Alyssa Thomas are the top contenders for the award.

Hammon said some players are more like gazelles because they are quick, nimble and agile. Others are more like lions because they physically dominate foes.

«She's the only person in the gym, in the world, that is both lion and gazelle,» Hammon said. «She can dance around you, or she can eat you up. She's just kind of anomaly in the way she can impact a game… she does it on both ends.»

Wilson had 31 points, 11 rebounds, 4 steals and 3 blocks Sunday. It was her 10th game with both 30-plus points and 10-plus rebounds, breaking her own single-season record for such games, set last year.

The WNBA season has expanded to 44 games this season; Sunday was Wilson's 38th game as she has missed four due to injury for the 28-14 Aces.

Wilson's current teammate Jewell Loyd, formerly with Seattle, and retired Minnesota star Maya Moore, who was inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame on Saturday, previously held the record for 30-point games in a season with 12 each. Moore did that in 2014, when she appeared in 34 games for the Lynx, averaged 23.9 PPG and was league MVP. Loyd did in 2023, when she appeared in 38 games for the Storm and averaged 24.7 PPG.

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