A three-day break is indeed on the horizon for Las Vegas, but not before a showdown with the Indiana Fever to culminate a tumultuous three-game trip.
Basketball
The NCAA will start accepting bids Monday on nearly two dozen sports championships. This is the first year that Las Vegas is eligible to bid after the governing body for college sports indefinitely suspended a ban last year that prevented events from being hosted in states that accept wagers on single games.
It felt a little like Hollywood on Friday night when some of the WNBA’s best players walked the “Orange Carpet” outside of Della’s Kitchen at The Delano on the Las Vegas Strip.
The weekend culminates with the All-Star Game at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Mandalay Bay Events Center, where Team Wilson meets Team Della Donne.
The All-Star guard loses in the final round to Connecticut Sun forward Shekinna Stricklen at the WNBA’s All-Star Friday night at Mandalay Bay Events Center.
The events are packaged together as a separate competition beginning at 4 p.m. Friday at Mandalay Bay Events Center. ESPN will televise the contests live.
The All-Star guard suffered through losing seasons in her first five years in the league, but the Aces are 13-6 at the break and she’s having a blast on the court.
The Summer League will be July 5 to 15 at the Thomas Mack Center and Cox Pavilion. All 30 NBA teams plus the China and Croatia national squads will compete.
The Aces turned in their worst offensive performance of the season Tuesday but still defeated the defending WNBA champion Seattle Storm, 60-56.
Isaac Lindsey, a guard from Mineral Point (Wisconsin) High School, committed to play basketball for UNLV. He is the second member of the Rebels’ 2020 class.
University President Susan Herbst signed a contract, and the teams are expected to begin play in the conference in the 2020-21 academic year.
The move comes 14 months after the NCAA changed the waiver process to clear the way for immediate eligibility for all approved requests.
Nearly half in a recent survey said their schools were not following NCAA-directed guidance that calls for medical staff to make decisions independent of coaches and administrators.
The only mother on the Las Vegas roster, backup post player Dearica Hamby came up big Sunday in helping the Aces beat the Sparks 83-70 in the season opener for both teams.
The Aces cruised to an 83-70 victory over the Los Angeles Sparks in their season opener Sunday night at Mandalay Bay Events Center.
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