Becky Hammon won her 150th WNBA game on Sunday, and the Las Vegas Aces made it a night worth remembering with a 91-81 victory over the Golden State Valkyries. The milestone came in a season game that also pushed Las Vegas to 5-3.
Readers were looking for this because the number carries history with it. Hammon became the second-fastest coach to reach 150 wins in WNBA history, doing it in 205 games, a mark topped only by Van Chancellor, who got there in 198 games with the Houston Comets.
The Aces did it behind another dominant all-around performance from A'ja Wilson, who had 28 points, 15 rebounds, four assists and four blocks. Jackie Young added 23 points, nine assists and seven rebounds, giving Las Vegas enough firepower to control the game and deliver Hammon her latest benchmark. Wilson said Hammon gives the team confidence and grace, and added that she would do whatever it takes to get her coach wins because of the trust Hammon has built.
The milestone also fits the broader arc of what Hammon has done since arriving in 2022. She has led Las Vegas to three titles in four years and is now one of four coaches in WNBA history to win three championships, a run that has turned every regular-season win into part of a larger standard rather than a simple one-night result.
Hammon sounded just as focused on the process as the number. She said she reached 150 with some of the greatest human beings to ever play, called the group a battle-tested team, and said she enjoys the process and believes good results follow it. The next question is how far that process can carry the Aces as the season goes on, because the win total is already historic and the team is still early in the chase.
