LAS VEGAS — A’ja Wilson is coming for the Finals MVP.
The newly crowned league MVP and Defensive Player of the Year did everything for the No. 1-seeded Las Vegas Aces to push her team to a 67-64 win over the No. 3 Connecticut Sun in Game 1 of the WNBA Finals in front of a record 10,135 fans at Michelob ULTRA Arena on Sunday afternoon. Game 2 is 9 p.m. ET Tuesday in Las Vegas.
It was the first career Finals win for Wilson and the Aces players who remain from the 2020 team that were swept by the Seattle Storm in the bubble.