DALLAS: Allisha Gray received the Athletes Unlimited championship a yr after ending fourth in her debut, outscoring Texan Odyssey Sims within the four-week occasion in Dallas.

The 2023 WNBA All-Star completed with 6,918 factors, 872 greater than Sims, a former Dallas-area highschool standout who went on to a adorned profession at Baylor.

Athletes Unlimited awards particular person titles in a league that types new groups every week. The softball occasion is subsequent, set for June in Wichita, Kansas.

Gray averaged a league-leading 29.1 factors in 12 video games and was the primary to attain no less than 30 factors in 4 consecutive video games. The occasion ended Saturday evening.

Kierstan Bell was third within the particular person standings and Natasha Cloud fourth, whereas Emily Engstler was the defensive participant of the yr.

The particular person title for Gray got here seven years after she helped South Carolina win this system’s first NCAA championship in Dallas.

She skipped her ultimate season with the Gamecocks to show professional and was the 2017 WNBA Rookie of the Year after getting taken fourth total by the Dallas Wings.

The Wings traded Gray to Atlanta final offseason, and he or she earned her first All-Star nod with the Dream, averaging a career-best 17.1 factors and three.1 assists per recreation.

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