Aces Coaching Staff Leaves Becky Hammon Embarrassed as Fever Force Game 5

History has the Indiana Fever winning the 2025 title. They have stunned the Las Vegas Aces 90-83 after back-to-back setbacks that had them counted out, and now the series heads to Vegas for a winner-takes-all Game 5.“This is the Fever’s fourth win as an underdog this postseason, the most by any team since the 2021 Chicago Sky (who won the championship that year).” wrote Alexa Phillippou. While the party starts in the Fever dressing room, Becky Hammon left the game red-faced, not only because of the loss but also because of an embarrassing incident in the final seconds.

To set the scene, the Las Vegas Aces and Becky Hammon were out of timeouts after they used their last at 2:54 in the game. However, Hammon thought there was another one. While referring to their second last timeout, “We heard Becky Ham and in that timeout say they had- two left where they indeed had one.” An ESPN commentator said on air. However, no one corrected Hammon after that, and with 30.1 seconds on teh clock, Hammon called for another timeout when she had none. Initially, the referees called it, but realised later that Hammon had none left and charged Hammon with a technical. Kelsey Mitchell received a free throw. “That is- A mistake from the Aces coaching staff and not being on top of exactly how many timeouts they had,” said the ESPN commentator.

Aces assessed a technical foul and loss off possession at the end of the 4th quarter due to taking an excessive timeout pic.twitter.com/uIO5MHoPle

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