LAS VEGAS — Whether it was Chelsea Gray on her 31st birthday orchestrating the offense, Jackie Young knocking down 3-pointers or Kelsey Plum driving to the basket, Las Vegas Aces guards helped deliver an emphatic victory Sunday in Game 1 of the WNBA Finals.
They combined to score 72 points and hand the New York Liberty a 99-82 defeat before a boisterous sellout crowd.
Young, who made five 3-pointers, and Plum scored 26 points apiece, and Gray had 20 points and nine assists.
“It’s kind of like Jackie and (Plum) are doing this really hard work, and then the ball goes into Chelsea and it’s just dicing everything,” Aces coach Becky Hammon said. “It was a really nice combination. Our trio of guards were pretty ridiculous.”
Add in A’ja Wilson’s 19 points, and the Aces got all but eight points from four players, but the Liberty were always going to have the superior depth over a Las Vegas team that is using a six-player rotation.