{"id":892580,"date":"2026-10-24T02:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T02:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/892580\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T02:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T02:38:18","slug":"allisha-gray-plays-through-a-hand-injury-as-the-dream-lead-the-wnba-finals-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/892580\/","title":{"rendered":"Allisha Gray plays through a hand injury as the Dream lead the WNBA Finals 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/allisha-gray-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Allisha Gray&#8217;s<\/a> left hand isn&#8217;t 100% yet, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/atlanta-dream-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Dream<\/a> guard is doing all she can to help the franchise win its first championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Gray injured the hand in Game 1 of the Dream&#8217;s semifinal series against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/new-york-liberty-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Liberty<\/a>. After missing the final two games of that round, she returned for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a> Finals, which the Dream lead 2-1 in the best-of-seven series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">She&#8217;s averaging 15 points so far in the finals, but is shooting just under 29% from the field, including 22% from behind the 3-point line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">\u201cThe biggest thing for me is giving myself a lot of grace. I am literally playing with eight fingers,\u201d said Gray, who wore a black velcro brace on her shooting hand while talking to reporters Friday. \u201cIt\u2019s knowing I am not 100% \u2018Lish,\u2019 the one that can hit shots and things like that. But if I give myself grace, I know the other ways I can impact the game.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Gray is averaging 4.3 rebounds and 3.0 assists to go along with her points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">\u201cI know that a 10% Lish is better than a 0% Lish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Gray briefly left Game 3 after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/gabby-williams-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gabby Williams<\/a> made contact with her injured hand. She did return a few minutes later and continued to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The 31-year-old Gray knows she will have all offseason to let the hand heal and it will be that much sweeter with a first WNBA title in hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">See AP\u2019s full WNBA coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Allisha Gray&#8217;s left hand isn&#8217;t 100% yet, but the Atlanta Dream guard is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[4130,3444,436,99,434,13016],"class_list":["post-892580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-allisha-gray","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892580","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=892580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}