On Sunday night at Michelob Ultra Arena, Dana Evans and the Las Vegas Aces won their 17th consecutive game, opening their WNBA postseason run with a 102-77 decision over the Seattle Storm to move just one victory from tying the 24-year-old league record.
— The Las Vegas Aces won their 17th consecutive game Sunday, as they opened their WNBA playoff run with a 102-77 decision over the Seattle Storm. One more victory will tie the 24-year-old league record and put Las Vegas into the WNBA semifinals for the seventh season in a row. But it’s another number that means the most to the Aces now.
„It’s the first to nine wins, so that’s how we want to approach it“, Aces coach Becky Hammon said of what it will take to give Las Vegas its third WNBA championship.
And Aces star A’ja Wilson said of the streak, „You guys celebrate this more than we do. The streak stopped in the regular season.“
It didn’t really, but in Wilson’s mind the streak is of limited importance now. Something perhaps for the history books, and she’s too busy dominating the present to think about that. The record of 18 straight win was set by the 2001 Los Angeles Sparks, who won the WNBA title that year and were led by Lisa Leslie.
