LAS VEGAS — Kiah Stokes knew her role coming into these WNBA Finals. She stays on the court because of her defense and embraces any physicality she can if it takes it away from A’ja Wilson.
Averaging a bucket a game, Stokes isn’t a scorer, and she doesn’t have to be. Defenses sag off the center, and it still doesn’t hurt the Las Vegas Aces. They won the 2022 championship doing it. And in Game 1, Wilson and the guards scored all but eight of the Aces’ 99 points against the New York Liberty.