Las Vegas Aces defender Chelsea Gray (12) celebrates aft making a handbasket against the New York Liberty during the 2nd fractional of an WNBA hoops crippled astatine Michelob Ultra Arena successful Mandalay Bay Thursday, July 30, 2026. Photo by: Steve Marcus
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Friday, Aug. 7, 2026 | 6:13 a.m.
INDIANAPOLIS — Chelsea Gray made 2 buzzer-beating 3-pointers after Caitlin Clark's uncharacteristic mistakes, the archetypal to unit overtime and the 2nd to springiness the defending WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces an 86-84 triumph implicit the Indiana Fever connected Thursday night.
Clark missed 2 escaped throws with 7 seconds near successful regularisation and Indiana up by three, past mislaid the shot with 7 seconds to spell successful overtime and the Fever a constituent ahead. Clark had 20 points and 8 assists on with 8 turnovers.
A’ja Wilson had 26 points, 13 rebounds and the cardinal antiaircraft halt against Clark that acceptable up Gray’s winner. Jackie Young added 22 points, including a franchise-record 15 successful a enactment to adjacent the archetypal fractional and unfastened the second. Gray had 11 points, hitting 3 3s.
Las Vegas overcame a 20-point first-half deficit, a three-point shortage astatine the extremity of regularisation and a two-point shortage astatine the extremity of overtime to salvage a triumph successful the three-game play series.
Kelsey Mitchell led the Fever with 28 points, but missed a precocious escaped propulsion successful regularisation earlier Clark's misses. Aliyah Boston added 21 points and 12 rebounds.
Las Vegas erased its large shortage by closing the archetypal fractional connected a 15-0 tally to chopped a 42-22 shortage to 42-37. Young scored the last 13 points of the half, the archetypal handbasket of the 2nd fractional and 5 of the archetypal 7 points successful the 2nd fractional to springiness the Aces a 44-42 lead.
Indiana yet recovered its shooting interaction midway done the 4th quarter.
It rallied from a 64-55 shortage with 6:16 near and led 75-72 erstwhile Gray deed the archetypal of her 2 buzzer-beaters. Gray did it again successful overtime knocking down a changeable to erase an 86-84 deficit. Both plays withstood replay reviews.
The crippled was stopped for respective minutes with 4:38 near successful the 3rd 4th erstwhile information escorted a woman, who was sitting successful the beforehand enactment straight crossed from the Aces bench, retired done a tunnel. A fewer minutes later, she assisted backmost to her spot and 2 men who were seated adjacent her were taken out.
The Fever issued a connection that said 1 instrumentality was removed past elected not to instrumentality erstwhile it was determined the instrumentality behaviour argumentation had not been violated. Young told reporters idiosyncratic had been “chirping" each nighttime and astatine that point, she thought helium had crossed the line. Young declined to elaborate connected what was said.
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