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Michael Voepel
Las Vegas – Jewel Lloyd Said that he is “on peace” Las vegas ekka‘First round playoff match against its former WNBA team, Seattle StormWith which she was a sharp division before doing business in February.
The aces and storms will meet in the first round for the second season in one line, with game 1 on Sunday at Micelob Ultra Arena (ET, ESPN).
Loyd played 10 seasons and won two championships with the store, which drafted his number 1 in 2015. ACES defeated Lloyd and Storm 2–0 in the first round last season, allegedly harassed Lloyd and requested to threaten and trade by Storm coaching staff during Offsen. The storm conducted an independent investigation into the allegations and found no violations.
Loyd said that she is not thinking about the past and focusing only on helping in advance in advance.
“As the season has gone, it’s just basketball, isn’t it?” Loyd said after practice on Saturday. “I have solved it. It doesn’t feel anything. I am peacefully with everything.”
Loyd returned to Seattle to face the storm twice this season, in which the storm won the first meeting in May and Aces won the second win in June. Lloyd alleged that a storm assistant coach took an oath on him during a second game in Seattle. WNBA reviewed the complaint, but no disciplinary action was taken.
“The first time I went back, it was a little strange,” Loyd said about playing at Seattle. “Being a vet in this league, I think you go through ups and downs. You see a lot of changes in the league and dynamics. Here with the aces, people see my value. They see who I am, my character and my reputation. I am more than just a basketball player here. I think I can be myself.”
The two-time Olympic gold medalist and six-time all-star, Loyd, started most of its WNBA career. He led WNBA in scoring at a average of at least 15 out of eight of his 10 sessions in Seattle, scoring at 24.7 PPG in 2023.
But he switched out to come out of the bench in late July, not a 16-game winning streak in early August before the access started. Lloyd suggested a change in coach Becky Hamon, saying that she felt that she could help the team better in that role.
“Here with the aces, people see my value. They see who I am, my character and my reputation. I am more than just a basketball player. I think I can be myself.”
Aces Guard Jewel Lloyd
Hamon credited Loyd, who completed a regular season at an average of 11.2 points and 3.2 rebounds.
“For someone with his resume, it’s almost unheard,” Hamon voluntarily said to leave his early role. “First of all, I hesitated. … I wanted me to know well that my faith in him did not fall a little. After some other games, she came back to me, and at that point, I wanted to do what was going to reduce her mind. You know, maybe I should have done before. He was probably right.”
Regarding the previous Lloyd’s previous issues with Seattle, Hamon said that he and Lloyd had not talked much about it.
Hamon said, “I knew that there were some difficulties, but it is not that she is trashing the Seattle Storm here.” “We have held some conversations here and there, but there is nothing deeply. She has never gone into any kind of expansion. I can tell you that she is one of my easiest players for the coach. She wants to do anything, who also takes to win, including going to the bench.
“But in those situations [facing a former team]I think for the first time when you play them, some luggage is going to happen. No matter what I would have said, I knew that there would be some feelings. I did not want to make one thing of it, because it is probably already one thing already. So I was like this, ‘Go out and play solid.’ If anything, I was urinated on us as a group because I did not think we had returned it in the way we played that first game in Seattle. We got our butts. ,
A lot has happened since then, after starting the line of victory with a. 500 records, proceeding on the seeds of number 2 in all ways.
When asked about Loyd on Saturday, The Storm only talked about how difficult it would be to protect him and other Las Vegas players. Las Vegas’s 105–75 win at Los Angeles on Thursday, Lloyd had seven WNBA regular-SIS record 22-pointers of the Aces Seven.
“You see how the electric player can be from the bench,” Seattle Guard Skiler Digins Said. “We all know that Jewel can shoot basketball. We will definitely have to defend the 3-point line. We saw [their] Last game. “
