The Aces sent Caitlin Clark and the Fever home in a thrilling elimination Game 3 in Las Vegas on Thursday night, with four-time MVP A’ja Wilson showing up big in the 94–83 victory. Was anybody that surprised that the best player in the league delivered when it mattered most? Or when the defending champ Aces, who have reached the WNBA semifinals or Finals in each of the last seven years, outlasted the six-seed entering just their second postseason run with a healthy Clark?
Fans may have been caught more off-guard by the Aces’ postgame press conference, when coach Becky Hammon fielded a rather specific question about Indiana. Fresh off the Aces’ eighth straight semifinal berth, Hammon was asked whether she saw any parallels between this Fever squad and the Aces team that she took over back in 2022.
