Earlier in the night, the 30-win, three-seeded Atlanta Dream fell to the Indiana Fever in Game 3 of their first-round WNBA playoff matchup. Thus, it wasn't the craziest thing in the world to think that the Las Vegas Aces , the best team in the WNBA over the past month or so, could end up seeing their semifinal streak come to an end with back-to-back losses to the seventh seed, the Seattle Storm.

But now, the Aces can breathe easy now that they've taken care of business against the Storm with a 74-73 win in Game 3 on Thursday night. However, getting past the Storm was the furthest thing from easy for the Aces. In fact, in the fourth quarter of Game 3, the Aces found themselves down by one, 73-72, with 19.3 seconds to go after Erica Wheeler drilled a pullup from midrange.

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