{"id":34011,"date":"2022-09-19T11:10:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T18:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=34011"},"modified":"2022-09-19T11:13:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T18:13:37","slug":"las-vegas-aces-win-w-n-b-a-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/las-vegas-aces-win-w-n-b-a-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Aces Win W.N.B.A. Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fair warning: We are not a sports person, so everything we know about this story is pretty much in the headline.<\/p>\n

From what we understand, the Las Vegas Aces defeated the Connecticut Sun, 78-71 to win their first W.N.B.A. championship. It was game four of a best-of-five series.<\/p>\n

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Everything’s better in Vegas. Even sports.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This championship win is a great opportunity for us to learn more about our team. There’s a chance you don’t know much about the team, either.<\/p>\n

Our only previous interaction with the Las Vegas Aces was when we broke the story<\/a> that would be the team’s name back in 2017. This is proof positive one need not know about something to break news about it.<\/p>\n

Here’s what Wikipedia<\/a> says about the team: “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 as a member club of the league’s Western Conference. The team plays their home games at Michelob Ultra Arena in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.”<\/p>\n

Here’s a list of the players on our championship team.<\/p>\n

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We deeply resent the fact all these women could bench press us.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The team has gone through some changes over the years. It was originally named the Utah Starzz, then the San Antonio Silver Stars, then just the San Antonia Stars.<\/p>\n

The team started playing in Las Vegas in 2018.<\/p>\n

You should totally search “Las Vegas Aces” in Google. They added some sweet fireworks.<\/p>\n

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Nice job on the pew-pew, Google.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You can see all the players snuggling up to their championship trophy on the official Twitter account<\/a> of the Las Vegas Aces.<\/p>\n

We will leave further coverage of this story to those more knowledgeable about sports, which is pretty much everybody.<\/p>\n

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A parade<\/a> is scheduled for the Las Vegas Strip to honor the Las Vegas Aces, Sep. 20, 2022. Fans are invited to join the team at 5:30 p.m. at Bellagio where a stage will be set up for the festivities.<\/p>\n

Sports are everywhere in Las Vegas now, but major professional sports didn’t officially arrive until the Golden Knights came to town in 2017.<\/p>\n

Despite our persistent disinterest in sports, it’s great to see people enjoying themselves while watching sports, and especially fun to see a Las Vegas sports team win a championship.<\/p>\n

Our sources say there’s more pro sports news on the horizon, so stay tuned.<\/p>\n

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We finally get our NBA announcement in 2022, so there’s that.<\/p>\n

— Vital Vegas (@VitalVegas) January 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n