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PHOENIX — With 90 seconds remaining, the Mercury crowd roared loud enough to threaten fault lines. Phoenix forward Kahleah Copper orchestrated an epic takeover to get Phoenix back in the game and DeWanna Bonner tied the score with a step-back 3. Las Vegas, it seemed, was in trouble.
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But Las Vegas Aces point guard Chelsea Gray had the ball at the top, a rookie defending her and A’ja Wilson setting a screen. And when the intensity hovers, and the footsteps of defeat get closer, that’s when Gray cooks. She curled off the pick and charged to the paint, leaned her weight into Mercury guard Monique Akoa Makani and slid in a layup off the glass. It was a monster bucket, a reminder of the Aces’ championship blood.
This is what they do.
“We just need to win one,” Wilson said, explaining their mindset. “Just win one game. Win one possession. … And everything is going to pan out.”
Las Vegas took poetic license Wednesday, going up 3-0 in these best-of-seven WNBA Finals with a 90-88 win over host Phoenix. In a game the Aces controlled, they found themselves at the brink of collapse — then flaunted their efficacy.
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