The team’s first season in Las Vegas was condensed by the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup in late September, forcing it to play a 34-game schedule in 91 days.
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Young and the Aces opened their second training camp with a pair of practices at UNLV’s Cox Pavilion. The 21-year-old Young, drafted No. 1 overall last month out of Notre Dame, worked as the team’s lead guard and played with several lineups.
The Aces open training camp Sunday at UNLV’s Cox Pavilion with three weeks to prepare for their second WNBA season.
The Las Vegas Aces held auditions Tuesday at the Mandalay Bay Events Center for candidates for the Wild Card Crew for the 2019 WNBA season.
CBS Sports Network will broadcast 40 games in primetime and on the weekends starting May 25 with the Minnesota Lynx vs. the Chicago Sky.
The Aces acquired veteran shooting guard Sugar Rodgers from the New York Liberty in a three-team trade Thursday. They will send third-year small forward Nia Coffey to the Atlanta Dream.
The Aces selected Notre Dame junior guard Jackie Young with the No. 1 overall pick in the WNBA Draft on Wednesday.
The Aces have zeroed in on Notre Dame’s Jackie Young and Louisville’s Asia Durr as the No. 1 overall pick in the WNBA Draft, which begins at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
The 30-year-old was hired by Laimbeer as the team’s general manger in December, and has since assumed a bulk of the scouting, and engaged in trade negotiations with other executives in the months leading up to Wednesday’s WNBA Draft, in which the Las Vegas has the No. 1 overall pick.
Oregon’s Sabrina Ionescu, a 5-foot-11 point guard, has flaunted in Las Vegas the precocious skillset that has helped her net an NCAA record 17 triple-doubles and emerge as perhaps the top prospect in next month’s WNBA Draft.
The Las Vegas Aces celebrated International Women’s Day on a cold, windy Friday by volunteering for Habitat for Humanity.
The Los Angeles Sparks have re-signed guard-forward Alana Beard, the reigning WNBA defensive player of the year.
Aces star A’ja Wilson will play for the “Home” team in the 2019 NBA Celebrity All-Star Game in Charlotte, North Carolina, the NBA announced Wednesday morning.
Minnesota Lynx star Maya Moore has decided to skip the upcoming WNBA season, seeking more time to devote to her family and her faith.
The Aces have re-signed restricted free-agent wing Dearica Hamby. Terms of the deal were not available. Hamby played in 33 games last season — all as a reserve — and scored 7.4 points per game.
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