After 12 games, the Las Vegas Aces had just five wins. For a team coached by Becky Hammon, a losing record was unthinkable—but there it was. Nothing seemed to click. Hammon’s constant postgame critiques weren’t translating into results, leaving both the team and fans frustrated. Things hit rock bottom when A’ja Wilson and Co. suffered a shocking 111-58 loss to the Lynx. A 53-point defeat? Simply unthinkable. Yet here they are now, just four wins away from claiming their third championship in four years. At the center of it all is A’ja Wilson, and she has a message from her boyfriend ahead of the finals.
The Miami Heat center had big words for his girlfriend in an interview with Anthony Chiang of the Miami Herald. “That’s the biggest thing I want in life, I want her to win. I want her to keep being and setting a higher standard for everybody to where people think it’s impossible until it’s done. I want people, when she’s done, to be like this is the greatest women’s basketball player to ever touch a basketball. From the time she touched it to the time she left.”
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