A'ja Wilson Makes History as Aces Sweep Mercury to Win 2025 WNBA Title, 3rd in 4 Years

The Las Vegas Aces are WNBA champions for the third time in four years.

A'ja Wilson and the Aces completed a WNBA Finals sweep of the Phoenix Mercury with a 97-86 Game 4 win on Friday night in Arizona.

Wilson, who led the Aces with 31 points and nine rebounds, also showed why she was named a 2025 Co-Defensive Player of the Year by shutting down the Mercury's top players with three blocks.

She finished out the night having made WNBA history with the most points and most rebounds by any player in a single postseason.

Wilson also passed Cappie Pondextor (110 points in 2007) for the most points in a single WNBA Finals series.

The Aces won back-to-back titles in 2022 and 2023 before losing to the 2024 champion New York Liberty in last year's semifinals.

Las Vegas will now join the Houston Comets, which won the league's first four championships, and the Minnesota Lynx, who triumphed four times between 2011 and 2017, as dynastic WNBA franchises.

The franchise's run to a historic third title started just under three minutes into Friday night's Game 4, when Wilson gave the Aces a 9-6 lead on a 10-foot jumper.

The Aces went on to lead for the remainder of the championship-clinching game.

Chelsea Gray and Jackie Young each posted 18 points in the victory, while Jewell Loyd and Dana Evans contributed double-digit points totals off the bench.

Phoenix head coach Nate Tibbetts was ejected late in the third quarter after receiving a double technical foul with his team trailing by 15 points.

Mercury guard Kahleah Copper responded to Tibbetts' ejection by helping her team cut the Aces' lead to as few as six points with just over seven minutes left on the clock.

Copper ultimately closed out her 30-point performance by fouling out before a strong final push from Gray and Young helped the Aces close out the win.

The Aces started out the championship series by completing a fourth-quarter comeback in a close Game 1 victory, then winning by a 13-point margin in Game 2.

Facing down an 0-2 series deficit, the Mercury attempted a late comeback of their own by tying Game 3 with just over one minute remaining. A clutch game-winner from Wilson made the difference and put the Mercury on the brink of elimination.

Las Vegas' blowout Game 4 win then capped off the first WNBA Finals to feature a best-of-seven series.

The 2025 Aces are now the 11th team to sweep a title series since the league began featuring multi-game championship series in 1998.

Especially given that Wilson just turned 29 in August, the Aces have plenty of reason to hope to build on the dominant series victory by embarking on another back-to-back title run in 2026.