Atlanta Dream’s shooting guard, Allisha Gray is one of WNBA’s unsung heroes. This year, the Atlanta Dream will be represented in the 2024 All-Star games in Allisha Gray. Despite the Dream’s dreadful path this season, Gray has been breaking records. This season, she became the WNBA’s 86th player to accomplish 3000 career points last week. Moreover, she made a career-high 6 3-pointers in a game against the Las Vegas Aces, becoming the second player in the W to do so with a minimum of 6 3-pointers and 6 free throws, translating to an 85% shooting beyond the arc and a 100% from the free throw line.

But before the break, she still has a handful of games to play. Meanwhile, let’s focus on the international side of things and explore her performance as a member of the national team.

Allisha Gray at the Olympics

Three years ago, Allisha Gray brought home a gold medal after winning the women’s 3×3 basketball in Tokyo. However, it wasn’t the first time Gray had represented the nation on the international stage, rather, this engagement has been going on for quite some time.

It all started in 2018 when Gray was in her 2nd season in the WNBA. She was named to the 2018-20 USA Basketball Women’s National Team pool. As a result, she participated in the team’s spring training in Seattle and the winter camp in South Carolina.

In the winter camp, she led the USA White Team to a 100-75 win over the USA Red Team in an intrasquad exhibition game. She scored 13 points, 4 rebounds, and an assist to the collective. Moreover, she led the USA to a 2-0 exhibition record.

In November 2019, she competed in the USA National Team’s 4-game NCAA Tour, averaging 5.5 points. Then came 2020-21, Gray made it to the 2020 USA Basketball 3×3 Qualifying Team, however, the event was canceled due to coronavirus which had engulfed the whole world under itself. However, she averaged 5.6 points and 4.8 rebounds with the 2020 USA 3×3 Olympic Team and clinched the gold medal in Tokyo (as mentioned above).

Thereafter, Allisha participated in Team USA’s 2021 training camp in February in South Carolina along with the Final Four weekend training camp in San Antonio. The next month, Gray was back participating in the 2021 USA 3×3 Olympic Qualifying Team’s March training camp in San Antonio itself.

She was a part of the USA women’s team when they finished first with a 6-1 record in the Inaugural 3×3 event at the 2021 Big 12 International held in Voiron, France. Gray was awarded MVP honors for this achievement. She registered a team-high 6.5 points and 5 rebounds, helping the USA to a 6-0 record at the 2021 FIBA 3×3 Olympic Qualifying Tournament held in Austria.

In 2022, she became a member of the USA World Cup Qualifying Team and led the country to a 2-0 mark against Belgium and Puerto Rico with an average of 10 points and 4 rebounds. Then she participated in the 2022 USA National Team’s minicamp, which was held in March in Minneapolis. Further, she was invited to the USA Basketball Women’s National Team training camp but couldn’t attend it at the time. But she did attend the USA Women’s National Team February minicamp in Minneapolis a year after in 2023.

Invited to the 2023 USA Women’s National Training Camp held in the city of Atlanta in November, Gray played in the USA – University of Tennesse Exhibition game in Knoxville. There she registered 9 points and 3 rebounds within 17 minutes on the floor

Similarly, she played in the USA – Duke Exhibition where she made 7-of-10 field goals and 2-of-4 free throws, making it a double-double of 16 points game with 10 rebounds and 3 steals in 29 minutes off the bench. That brings us to earlier this year when she participated in the 2024 USA Women’s National Team February training camp held in New York.

Simply put, Allisha Gray is a remarkable athlete who also happens to have won gold in the 2020 Olympic Games 3×3 basketball, has been a member of the 2019 Women’s Nationa Team in exhibition games, 2020 USA Women’s Olympic Team (3×3), and 2021 USA Women’s Olympic Qualifying Team (3×3).

During these participations, Allisha Gray won the 2021 FIBA 3×3 Olympic Qualifying Tournament title and received the 2021 USA Basketball 3×3 Athlete of the Year and 2021 Big 12 International MVP (3×3) honors. She also set the 27-3 all-time representing the nation in 5-on-5 and 3×3 national teams.

Gray is on her path to being an All-Star more than once

Last year, Allisha Gray made her All-Star debut as a reserve for Team Wilson. She went 4-of-10 from the field and tallied 10 points, 2 rebounds, and a steal coming off the bench. At the time, she participated alongside her Atlanta Dream teammate, Cheyenne Parker-Tyus in the Skills Challenge.

This year, she has been named an AT&T 2024 WNBA ALl-Star for the second time. She is the fifth player to represent the Atlanta Dream with multiple selections. The first four Dream players have been Erika de Souza, Angel McCoughtry, Shoni Schimmel, and Rhyne Howard. Gary’s presence on this year’s All-Star roster marks the franchise’s fourth consecutive year with an All-Star player.

This year’s event will be the second time when the game will showcase the All-Stars split into two teams. On one hand, it will be the members of the USA Basketball Women’s National Team and on the other, there will be the WNBA All-Stars.

The 20th WNBA All-Star Game will be hosted at Footprint Center in Phoenix on Saturday, July 20th.

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