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Less than one week after 12 of the world’s greatest players came together to win the gold medal for the U.S. Olympic team, it’s back to being “frenemies.
” With a little more than one month left in the season, all 12 members of the national team that held off France 67-66 to win an unprecedented eighth straight gold medal in women’s basketball last Sunday have played at least one game, as the chase for playoff berths has resumed. “I think that’s the beautiful thing about our league, is we kind of flip that switch in those moments,” Olympic MVP A’ja Wilson said. “We all know what we want to go after now.
We checked off the box of the gold medal, now it’s really time to go.” Wilson and the two-time defending champion Las Vegas Aces tipped off their post-Olympic break Saturday against the league-leading New York Liberty and reigning league MVP Breanna Stewart. Sabrina Ionescu scored 23 points, Jonquel Jones registered a double-double with 10 points and 17 rebounds and the Liberty clinched a playoff berth with a 79-67 win over the Aces in a highly anticipated matchup many be.