{"id":649204,"date":"2026-05-17T21:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/649204\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T21:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:24:07","slug":"gray-makes-go-ahead-jumper-with-3-6-seconds-left-as-aces-beat-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/649204\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray makes go-ahead jumper with 3.6 seconds left as Aces beat Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA \u2014 Chelsea Gray made a fadeaway jumper in the lane with 3.6 seconds to play, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/las-vegas-aces\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"las-vegas-aces\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Las Vegas Aces<\/a> beat 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=\"nofollow noopener\">Atlanta Dream<\/a> 85-84 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Gray led the Aces with 21 points, while A&#8217;ja Wilson and Chennedy Carter added 20 apiece. Wilson moved past Aces coach Becky Hammon (5,841) into 19th on the WNBA\u2019s career scoring list with 5,844 points.<\/p>\n<p>Gray was 5-for-8 from three-point range and had six assists.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta\u2019s Angel Reese had nine points on 1-of-8 shooting, with eight rebounds and eight turnovers.<\/p>\n<p>NaLyssa Smith scored 11 of her 13 points in the second half. Jackie Young was 0-or-12 from the field, 0-of-5 from three-point range and was held scoreless for the first time since 2020, her second WNBA season. Young finished with seven assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Aces (4-1), the defending WNBA champions, have won four straight since a\u00a099-66\u00a0home loss to Phoenix in the opener.<\/p>\n<p>The Dream (2-1) scored 16 consecutive points to trim their deficit to a point after Te-Hina Paopao hit a three-pointer with 2:16 to play. After a turnover by Wilson, Jordin Canada&#8217;s fast-break layup with 36 seconds left gave Atlanta its first lead of the second half at 84-83.<\/p>\n<p>Gray missed a shot in the lane but, following a tie-up, the Aces won a jump ball to set up the go-ahead shot.<\/p>\n<p>Allisha Gray led Atlanta with 25 points and nine rebounds, and Paopao had 19 points. Rookie Madina Okot had her second career double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds, and Canada added 11 points and seven steals.<\/p>\n<p>Carter converted a three-point play that gave the Aces their largest lead at 73-54 with 3:35 left in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta&#8217;s Rhyne Howard (concussion protocol) and Brionna Jones (knee) did not play.<\/p>\n<p>Dana Evans (leg) and Janiah Barker (concussion protocol) missed the game for the Aces.<\/p>\n<p>Aces: Host Los Angeles on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Dream: Host Dallas on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014 Chelsea Gray made a fadeaway jumper in the lane with 3.6 seconds to play, and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-649204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}