At the WNBA All-Star break, the Las Vegas Aces were .500 and clinging to the eighth and final playoff spot. A month later, they've won five in a row and seven of their last eight to improve to 19-14,

Las Vegas Aces coach Becky Hammon didn’t say much to her team after its 53-point loss to the Minnesota Lynx in early August. Having been run off the floor by the Lynx in the second-biggest defeat in WNBA history,