LAS VEGAS — A’ja Wilson has recorded the WNBA’s first 1,000-point season.

She accomplished the feat with one minute, 57 seconds remaining in the Aces’ 84-71 win over the Connecticut Sun on Sunday at Michelob Ultra Arena.

Wilson finished with 29 points, nine rebounds and two blocks for the Aces (25-13). This comes after she set the ...Read more

MIAMI – Jimmy Butler will show up on Miami Heat media day on Sept. 30 at Kaseya Center as:

— A. Beetlejuice.

— B. Emo Jimmy 2.0 (a 2023 repeat).

— C. Dreadlock Jimmy 2.0 (a 2022 reprise).

— D. As himself, no adornment, sans stylist (seemingly a long shot, considering how Butler knows his media-day photo becomes the one required to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Jeanie Buss went to her first women's wrestling match with low expectations.

"My only experience with women wrestling was like Jell-O wrestling or mud wrestling," she said. "I thought it was something that I would not appreciate."

Buss attended that WOW — Women of Wrestling show in 2000 mainly to humor close friend David ...Read more

The Aces beat the Indiana Fever, 78-74, on Friday at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

It was the Aces’ second win in Indiana in three days, completing a regular-season sweep with four victories over the team this season.

It was a balanced effort for the Aces (24-13). Chelsea Gray contributed 19 points and six assists, Kelsey Plum added...Read more

MIAMI — It was a summer spent among the leading men of this NBA generation, sharing in gold alongside LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant at the Paris Olympics.

“That’s one of the most historic things that I’ve done, being part of a team that is compared to the Dream Team,” Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo said this week, a ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — From 2011 through 2017, the Minnesota Lynx won four WNBA titles while making the finals six times in seven years, and missing a fifth title by a couple of seconds.

Those teams featured four Hall of Famers, and a fifth player, Rebekkah Brunson, who should be so honored.

The 2024 Minnesota Lynx were coming off two losing seasons....Read more

CHICAGO — Less than three weeks remain until the Chicago Bulls return to the Advocate Center to prepare for the upcoming season. They enter with more questions than answers after the departures of DeMar DeRozan and Alex Caruso and the unsettled discontentment of Zach LaVine’s failed trade venture.

The season’s defining question is obvious...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — It’s been just over three months since Dan Hurley thrilled UConn fans with the news that he’d be staying with the Huskies, and turning down a reported six-year, $70 million contract offer to coach the Los Angeles Lakers.

Hurley cited family, the chance to build on something special at UConn, and the desire to remain a ...Read more

BOSTON — The 2023-24 Celtics were so deep, so talented, so well-coached that they played more than a third of the season without their third-best player and never blinked.

Starting center Kristaps Porzingis sat out 25 games during the regular season – some due to injury, others for rest. Boston won 21 of them.

In the playoffs, Porzingis ...Read more

Three days ago, A’ja Wilson entered Barclays Center in a walking boot and was unable to assist her team in an eventual loss to the Liberty.

Fast forward to Wednesday night, Wilson became the WNBA’s single-season scoring leader while scoring 27 points in a win against Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever.

Wilson entered Wednesday’s matchup...Read more

A’ja Wilson continued rewriting WNBA history in the Aces’ 86-75 win over the Indiana Fever on Wednesday at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

The star forward led the Aces (23-13) with 27 points and 12 rebounds, breaking the league’s single-season scoring record with her 941st point in the final 30 seconds of the second quarter.

The ...Read more

NEW YORK — Even if the rebuilding Nets find themselves at the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings next season, there are still plenty of competitors on the roster who have much to play for beyond pride. Entering what is expected to be a lost season in Brooklyn, these five players should have more motivation than most.

Honorable mention...Read more

The Aces and WNBA filed separate motions on Wednesday to dismiss Los Angeles Sparks player Dearica Hamby’s federal lawsuit against them.

Hamby’s lawsuit, which was filed a month ago in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, alleged “repeated acts of intimidation, discrimination and retaliation” leading up to and following the former Aces ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert is being criticized by some of the league's players and their union for what she said — and didn't say — in response to a question about "menacing" and "uncharitable" comments made by fans on social media regarding players like Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever and Angel Reese of the Chicago...Read more

CHICAGO — The Chicago Sky are on the clock to rethink their end-of-season strategy after star rookie Angel Reese suffered a season-ending wrist injury Friday.

Losing Reese, who was leading the WNBA in rebounding (13.1 per game) and the Sky in minutes (32.5), is clearly a significant blow. The 6-foot-3 forward had started all 34 games before ...Read more

Once again, the Minnesota Lynx won a game by turning on the second-half jets.

In a 76-64 victory over host Atlanta on Tuesday night in College Park, Ga., the Lynx outscored the Dream 24-10 from late in the third quarter until Bridget Carleton hit a three-pointer with 3:27 left in the fourth, turning a tie score into a 14-point Lynx lead.

Four ...Read more