Vegas Aces
The Las Vegas Aces are an American professional basketball team based in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. The Aces compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) as a member of the Western Conference. The team plays its home games at Michelob Ultra Arena in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, and is headquartered in Henderson, Nevada. The Aces won the 2022 WNBA Commissioner's Cup and WNBA championship. The Aces also won the 2023 WNBA championship, becoming the first team to win back-to-back championships since 2001 and 2002, when the Los Angeles Sparks completed that feat. The Aces would win the 2025 WNBA Championship, securing their third championship in four years.
The team was founded in Salt Lake City, as the Utah Starzz before the league's inaugural 1997 season. It then moved to San Antonio, before the 2003 season and became the San Antonio Silver Stars, later shortened to the San Antonio Stars in 2014. The team relocated to Las Vegas before the 2018 season. The Aces, who are owned by Mark Davis, the owner of the NFL's Las Vegas Raiders) and Tom Brady, are one of three WNBA franchises who compete in a market that lacks an NBA team; the other two teams are the Connecticut Sun and the Seattle Storm.
As the Stars, the team qualified for the WNBA playoffs in seven of their fifteen years in San Antonio. The franchise has been home to many high-quality players such as all-star point guard Becky Hammon, power-forward Sophia Young, former first-overall draft pick Ann Wauters, seven-foot-two-inch center Margo Dydek, two-time Sixth Woman of the Year Dearica Hamby, and four-time league MVP A'ja Wilson. The franchise has gone to the WNBA Finals five times: first in 2008, losing to Detroit, in 2020 losing to Seattle, in 2022 winning against Connecticut, in 2023 winning against New York, and in 2025 beating the Phoenix Mercury.
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