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Losing Game 1 of a best-of-five series can make things feel urgent pretty quickly. But if there’s one player who has shown she can respond from this exact position, it’s A’ja Wilson. Three times in her postseason career, Wilson and the Las Vegas Aces have lost Game 1 of a best-of-five series and still found a way to win it. The first came in 2020, when Connecticut handed Las Vegas a 25-point loss to open the semifinals. Wilson responded with 29 points, 7 rebounds, and 7 blocks in Game 2, including two huge baskets down the stretch to help the Aces even the series. That win became even more important when Connecticut took Game 3. Facing elimination, Wilson put up 18 points, 13 rebounds, and 4 assists to help force a deciding Game 5. She followed that with 23 points, 11 rebounds, 4 assists, and 3 blocks, scoring Las Vegas’ final four points in a 66-63 win that sent the Aces to the Finals. Two years later, she found herself in a similar position. Wilson struggled in Game 1 of the semifinals against Seattle, finishing with just 8 points on 30% shooting as the Aces dropped the opening game of the semifinals. Her response? She averaged (30.0) points, (12.3) rebounds, and (2.3) blocks over the next three games as Las Vegas won all three. None came easily: two were decided by five points and the other went to overtime. That run eventually ended with Wilson winning her first WNBA championship. Then we saw it again last season. Indiana took Game 1 of the semifinals, but Las Vegas responded and eventually pulled out the series in a deciding Game 5. Wilson saved one of her biggest performances for when the Aces needed it most, finishing with 35 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 4 steals, and 4 blocks in an overtime victory that sent Las Vegas back to the Finals. So history says one thing pretty clearly: a Game 1 loss has never been enough to count Wilson out.

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