{"id":476398,"date":"2026-02-15T11:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/476398\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:33:08","slug":"chelsea-gray-wins-1v1-tournament-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/476398\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Gray wins 1V1 Tournament title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami hosted a thrilling showdown on Saturday as Las Vegas Aces guard <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/chelsea-gray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea Gray<\/a> defeated Atlanta Dream guard <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/allisha-gray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Allisha Gray<\/a> in a best-of-three series to win the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/unrivaled\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unrivaled<\/a> 1-on-1 Tournament. The event featured 28 participants competing for a $300,000 prize pool.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ClutchPoints\/status\/2022827991277912250\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">took home $200,000<\/a> for her championship win, while Allisha walked away with $50,000 as the runner-up. The $200,000 prize exceeded Gray&#8217;s 2025 WNBA salary of $196,267.<\/p>\n<p>Semifinalists Kelsey Plum and Aliyah Boston each received $25,000. In addition, Gray&#8217;s Rose BC teammates collected $10,000 apiece from the prize pool.<\/p>\n<p>Teams battled in the championship series, competing to reach seven points per game. Allisha opened with a 7-0 win in Game 1. Chelsea bounced back in Game 2, hitting consecutive three-pointers and closing the game with a fadeaway jumper to even the series. In the do-or-die third game, Allisha raced to a 6-0 lead in under a minute. Chelsea cut the margin to 6-4 with defensive stops and timely scoring. After more than six minutes without a score as both players missed multiple attempts, Chelsea capitalized when Allisha lost her footing and converted a three-pointer to clinch the 7-6 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea defeated Plum 12-8 in the semifinal after trailing 8-0 and finishing on a 12-0 run. Allisha reached the championship with a 12-10 win over Boston, overcoming Aliyah&#8217;s 10-0 response to her own 9-0 start by hitting a clutch three-pointer.<\/p>\n<p>Nicknamed \u201cPoint Gawd,\u201d Gray owns four WNBA championships (2016, 2022, 2023, 2025), was named 2022 WNBA Finals MVP, and has also won a WNBA Commissioner&#8217;s Cup title and MVP honors. A two-time Olympic gold medalist, she captained Rose BC, the winners of the first-ever Unrivaled Championship, earning the Finals MVP Trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami hosted a thrilling showdown on Saturday as Las Vegas Aces guard Chelsea Gray defeated Atlanta Dream guard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[4643,49,48,12199,82,4646,630,108958],"class_list":{"0":"post-476398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-allisha-gray","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-chelsea-gray","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-unrivaled","14":"tag-wnba","15":"tag-wnba-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476398","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=476398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}