Pursuit of a third WNBA championship begins for the Las Vegas Aces on Sunday when they host the Seattle Storm in Game 1 of their best-of-three opening-round playoff series.

Closing the regular season on a 16-game winning streak, just two shy of matching the league all-time record, Las Vegas climbed to the No. 2 seed in the WNBA playoffs. Their surge on the back-half of the schedule powered the Aces from a .500 record at 14-14 on Aug. 2, when they hit their nadir in a 111-58 loss to league-leading Minnesota.

"Did (the team's play) look like the way we thought it should look like? No. But I feel like that's everything in life sometimes," said Las Vegas forward A'ja Wilson following the Aces' 103-75 rout of Los Angeles to cap the regular season on Thursday.

Wilson, the league's reigning Mo

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