Chelsea Gray has agreed to a multiyear deal with the Aces, securing another vital piece of the team’s core for the future.
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Las Vegas Aces news, scores, highlights and game reports for the back-to-back WNBA champs, led by A'ja Wilson, Chelsea Gray and Kelsey Plum.
The Aces experienced the kind of exhaustive day of travel that world-class athletes are not normally subjected to as they begin a three-game trip in Connecticut.
Three-on-three basketball is played on a half court with a 12-second shot clock. Baskets inside the arc are a point and outside are two.
The lethargic Aces struggled to match Connecticut’s physicality and faltered in a rematch of last year’s WNBA semifinals Sunday at Michelob Ultra Arena.
The Aces were the No. 1 seed for the playoffs despite shooting by far the fewest 3-pointers in the regular season at 254. They made 93, the only team that hit fewer than 100.
Trevor La Porte, 24, got a tattoo of Dearica Hamby’s field-goal attempt on the outside of his left leg.
McBride has returned to All-Star form during the postseason, averaging 15.5 points on 51.4 percent shooting, including 50 percent 3-point shooting.
The Aces (19-10) trail the Connecticut Sun (20-8) and Washington Mystics (20-8) by 1½ games for a top-two seed in the WNBA playoffs after an 89-85 loss Friday night.
Las Vegas coach Bill Laimbeer was supposed to coach Team Delle Donne while Washington coach Mike Thibault was scheduled to coach Team Wilson. But the two made an informal agreement to switch ahead of the draft, and the rest of the league’s coaches backed it — prompting Delle Donne to propose the swap.
Dearica Hamby started in place of injured star A’ja Wilson and scored 24 points and grabbed nine rebounds to lead Las Vegas.
The Aces waived second-year wing Jaime Nared and sixth-year center Kelsey Bone on Thursday and will break training camp with 11 players, one shy of the roster limit.
Las Vegas ascended to the 5-2 favorite to claim the WNBA crown after acquiring 6-foot-8-inch center Liz Cambage, last season’s MVP runner-up, from Dallas.