Duo combines for 52 points in Las Vegas' 99-82 victory on Sunday.
LAS VEGAS -- Whether it was Chelsea Gray on her 31st birthday orchestrating the offense, Jackie Young knocking down 3-pointers or Kelsey Plum driving to the basket, Las Vegas' guards helped deliver an emphatic Game 1 victory Sunday in the WNBA Finals.They combined to score 72 points to hand the New York Liberty a 99-82 defeat before a boisterous sellout crowd.Young, who made five 3-pointers, and Plum each scored 26 points, and Gray had 20 points and nine assists.
'In one of the most anticipated Finals in recent memory with three WNBA MVPs, this game instead played out like the regular-season meetings between the teams in which the closest outcome was nine points.The Aces made sure of that by turning into another one-sided game going on an 11-2 run that turned a 67-63 advantage late in the third quarter into a 78-65 lead early in the fourth. Las Vegas led by as much as 94-72 with 3:32 remaining.
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