{"id":40955,"date":"2025-08-02T03:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T03:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40955\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T03:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T03:55:09","slug":"allisha-gray-makes-seven-three-pointers-as-dream-beat-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40955\/","title":{"rendered":"Allisha Gray makes seven three-pointers as Dream beat Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLLEGE PARK, Ga. \u2014 Allisha Gray scored 26 points, including a career-high seven three-pointers, and Naz Hillmon had 18 points and nine rebounds in her first start of the season as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/atlanta-dream\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"atlanta-dream\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Atlanta Dream<\/a> beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/phoenix-mercury\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"phoenix-mercury\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Phoenix Mercury<\/a> 96-72 on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta scored 34 points in the first quarter after making 62 per cent of its shots, including eight for 11 from three-point range. Gray had 14 points in the quarter\u2014 a career-high for any quarter \u2014 and Maya Caldwell added 11 to outscore Phoenix\u2019s 23 points. The Dream\u2019s eight three-pointers tied a franchise record for any quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The Dream extended their lead to 58-42 at halftime behind 16 points and four three-pointers by Gray. A 9-0 run to begin the third quarter made it 67-42 before Phoenix made its first basket of the half with 6:30 left.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta had 84 points and 12 three-pointers entering the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Brionna Jones had 16 points and eight rebounds, and Caldwell added a season-high 14 points for Atlanta (17-11). Gray was eight for 12 from the floor, including seven for nine from three-point range, to reach 25-plus points for the seventh time this season. Brittney Griner (neck) and Rhyne Howard (left knee) did not play.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kahleah Copper led Phoenix (16-11) with 19 points. Alyssa Thomas had 12 points and 10 rebounds. Thomas moved into 13th in league history with 2,579 career rebounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE PARK, Ga. \u2014 Allisha Gray scored 26 points, including a career-high seven three-pointers, and Naz Hillmon had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-40955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}