2023-08-23 12:19:00
Month of all WNBA records! 20 days after Diana Taurasi crossed the 10,000 career units mark, A’ja Wilson equals the record for points in a game. Sensational.
53 points.
It doesn’t seem like much – or at least, below what you see in boys – but it’s a monumental performance from the hands of A’ja Wilson. The double MVP literally trampled the Atlanta Dream, 93 to 72, and allowed her team to solidify their record of 30 wins for only four losses. Yes, the Las Vegas Ace is putting on a season worthy of its only ambition, namely to win the back-to-back. There are only two games left for A’ja Wilson and her teammates before attacking the Playoffs. So it was the best time to match Liz Cambage’s points record – achieved on July 17, 2018 -, against an Atlanta Dream exhausted by the intensity of the regular season, and who was nevertheless looking to secure his place in the Top 8, synonymous with the Playoffs.
And now ?
And now, after breaking one of the greatest records she could break, A’ja Wilson must make history with a capital H. Headline goal, her second in two years, to become one of the greatest at “only” 27 years old. Not the worst ambition in the world, that.
A’JA WILSON 50 BALL ????
53 PTS
7 REB
20/21 FT
4 BLK
SHEESH. (via @WNBA) pic.twitter.com/Xz5ZetaoOx
— Overtime (@overtime) August 23, 2023
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