For three quarters, this game recap was shaping up quite differently.
From Joe and Clara Wu Tsai to Jordan Chiles and Steph Curry, the stars flooded the Barclays Center to watch A’ja Wilson’s lone regular-season visit to New York, only for it to be announced two hours before tip-off that she’d be out. A bummer, certainly, but the two 2023 finalists are on a collision-course to meet in the second round. The Liberty and their fans will likely get another chance to see Wilson in person, they just didn’t get to prepare for it on Sunday.
The Las Vegas Aces, with little to lose, made six of their first seven 3-pointers, and then a more natural order was restored.