Wilson exits with head injury as Aces fall to Sparks

Three-time WNBA MVP A'ja Wilson exited the Las Vegas Aces' 97-89 nonaccomplishment to the Los Angeles Sparks with what the squad said was a caput injury.

Wilson was struck connected the look arsenic she went up to support a thrust to the handbasket by the Sparks' Dearica Hamby. Wilson took herself retired of the crippled with 1:17 near successful the 3rd 4th and instantly pulled a towel to her nose. Wilson did not return.

"She was bleeding," Aces manager Becky Hammon said aft the game. "She's going to spell to the doc time and spot what's going on. I don't person thing beyond that."

Wilson finished with 13 points aft going 2-of-12 from the tract and 9-of-10 from the escaped propulsion enactment successful 28 minutes. She besides had 8 rebounds, 5 assists and 4 blocks. Jackie Young had 34 points and Chelsea Gray had 28 to pb Las Vegas.

Hammon called retired team's effort connected some ends, but particularly the defense, which allowed the Sparks to sprout 56.9% from the field.

"We people 89 points, and we lone had 2 bully violative accumulation nights: Chelsea and Jackie. Everybody other were stinkers," Hammon said. "The seat was a stinker. But 89 points should beryllium capable to triumph a game. You can't springiness up 50 points astatine halftime. We're inactive searching for that 40-minute game. It's similar a damn unicorn."

Rickea Jackson had a career-high 30 points for the visiting Sparks, who improved to 4-7.

The Aces, WNBA champions successful 2022 and 2023, are present 4-4. They mislaid to the enlargement Golden State Valkyries 95-68 connected Saturday successful San Francisco.

Guard Jewell Loyd, the WNBA's scoring person successful 2023, continued to conflict successful her archetypal play with the Aces aft 10 seasons successful Seattle, finishing with 7 points connected 3-of-9 shooting Wednesday. She has scored successful treble figures successful conscionable 3 of the Aces' 8 games and is shooting 29.4% from the field.

"I deliberation she's getting bully looks, she conscionable has missed them," Hammon said. "She got successful foul trouble, truthful that's ever a small spot of a hindrance successful somebody's playing time. But she's doing a batch of different things right."

Asked if determination was a information of moving Loyd retired of the starting lineup, Hammon acknowledged, "Yes, it's been talked about. Brought up by her."

Loyd has started astir each her career, different than 11 games her rookie play successful 2015 and six games successful 2019 erstwhile she was dealing with an ankle injury.