The Golden Knights on Tuesday delivered Las Vegas its first Stanley Cup championship, beating the Panthers 9-3 in Game 5 to clinch the historic title.
But A’ja Wilson of the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces doesn’t want people — including President Joe Biden — to think it’s the city’s first championship. The two-time WNBA MVP scoffed at a tweet from POTUS claiming the Golden Knights are the city’s “first major professional franchise” to win a title.
Wilson, the No. 1 pick of the 2018 WNBA Draft, led the Aces to the franchise’s first WNBA championship on Sept. 18 2022: 269 days before the Golden Knights hoisted the Stanley Cup. She was a force for the Aces in 2022, winning her second league MVP trophy and earning WNBA Defensive Player of the Year honors as Las Vegas beat the Connecticut Sun in four games in a best-of-five series.
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Congrats to the Vegas @GoldenKnights on their first Stanley Cup in just their sixth season. The first major professional franchise in such a proud American city.
Today, the team and entire community are champions.
— President Biden (@POTUS) June 14, 2023
Wilson, who said she could not quote tweet Biden, also claimed the franchise had not been issued a White House invitation to…
