Las Vegas Strip Parade for WNBA Champs Celebrates City’s First Major Sports Win
The Las Vegas Strip’s busiest cube will shut downwardly Tuesday for a parade and exchange celebrating the Las Vegas Aces’ WNBA championship win. The parade testament start at 5:30 p.m. nigh Caesars Palace, so continue southward on Las Vegas Boulevard to the fountains at Bellagio for the rally. Both are free and surface to the public.
On Sun inward Phoenix, the Aces vanquish the CT Sun 78-71 in Game 4 of the WNBA Finals. Chelsea Robert Gray was named Finals MVP. The head safety device scored 20 points, Phoebe rebounds, and sise assists, as the Aces clinched the series, 3-1.
1st Major Championship Win
The Las Vegas team’s win also marks the first clip any major-league sports team from Las Vegas has won a sports championship. Before the Aces, only if the Vegas Golden Knights came close, getting as far as the Henry M. Stanley Cup Finals inward its initiative season.
In recognition of the victory’s special significance to Sin City, the Aces received a special military greeting when they arrived rearwards in Las Vegas betimes Monday. After their planer landed at Harry Reid International Airport, ii fire trucks sprayed an archway of water around it.
“We’ve speedily transformed into the sports working capital of the world, and where amend to celebrate the foremost championship than inward Kenneth Bancroft Clark County,” William Clark County Commissioner Michael Naft told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “As somebody who grew upward here, i could ne'er experience envisioned where we are today. I’m simply so proud of the squad and their leadership, the activism they’re doing hither inwards the community, and what it agency for the future tense of sports in Nevada.”
Culmination of Decades of Effort
The thrust to pull major conference sports team up to Las Vegas began inward solemn with an unsuccessful beseech for the Montreal Expos inwards 2004. Working against Las Vegas at the time was the front of legalized sports betting, which was frowned upon by many conference commissioners. Questions also surfaced nigh whether Las Vegas’ 1.6 one thousand thousand universe was enough to reenforcement a major-league sports franchise.
In the 18 years since, all such questions near Las Vegas feature evaporated. The Golden Knight feature played to packed houses since 2017 — and the Las Vegas Raiders since 2021 — without a sports betting scandal. Talks are currently underway to ground teams from the NBA, MLB, and MLS.
Aces Rally Lineup
At the Bellagio fountains, Gov. Steve Sisolak is expected to nowadays the Aces with a “key to the Strip.”(The Strip lies outside the City of Las Vegas, in unincorporated Charles Joseph Clark County.) Performances are also scheduled from Full Tilt Dance Crew, High Rollers, and Aces DJ Joe Green.
Traffic on the Strip’s southward lanes testament be unsympathetic to vehicles 'tween Flamingo Road and Bellagio Drive from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. Tuesday for the event. Roads close Caesars Palace and Flamingo Road testament control rolling closures.