A'ja Wilson, Chelsea Gray, and Jackie Young missed Las Vegas' game against the New York Liberty to rest on Sunday, as the team played the second half of a difficult back-to-back. The Aces lost 98-87 at Minnesota on Saturday and didn't arrive at their hotel in New York until nearly 10 p.m. after a nearly 1,200-mile trek.

"I mean, everybody has a brutal schedule at some point," Aces coach Becky Hammon said. "I'm not going to put them in any kind of jeopardy to get hurt when we've been expending a lot of energy on travel and a lot of miles back and forth crisscrossing the country."

Sunday's game against the Liberty tipped off on ABC at 12:30 p.m. ET. The early tipoff meant an early wake up and arriving at the arena less than 12 hours after the Aces got to their hotel. Even without Las Vegas' top three players, Liberty coach Chris De Marco said the team would be ready for the contest.