Seattle at Las Vegas

Seattle has won five of its past six games and four of five on the road and the Storm provide a tough challenge for the Aces in the first round of the playoffs. Seattle has a lot of experience and its top four scorers, Jewell Loyd, Ezi Magbegor, Nneka Ogwumike and Skylar Diggins-Smith, combine to average 63.2 points per game. Magbegor and Loyd were rested on Thursday and the Storm still defeated Phoenix 89-70 and covered as a 2-point underdog. Seattle is in a triple-revenge spot and it knows it has to play better defense after losing 85-72 on Tuesday to the Aces, who shot 53 percent and hit nine of 20 3-point tries. Take the Storm.