UNCASVILLE, Conn. — Aces guard Chelsea Gray had one last sprint in her. As the final seconds the 2022 WNBA Finals ticked off the clock and the ball was securely in the arms of her star teammate A’ja Wilson, Gray put her hands atop her head and dashed across the court toward her team’s bench. Awaiting her were All-Star guard Kelsey Plum, the league’s Coach of the Year Becky Hammon, and the rest of the fun-loving Las Vegas team that has now been crowned champions.
For four games, the Sun were unable to stop Gray. It was fitting, then, that when the buzzer sounded in Mohegan Sun Arena, she, herself, wouldn’t stop moving. On Sunday, the Aces defeated the Sun, 78–71, to win their franchise’s first-ever title and Gray led Las Vegas with a team-high 20 points and six assists. For her efforts, she was named the Finals MVP.
“I worked so hard for this,” she said in an on-court television interview after Game 4. “I was just pushing it in, and hopefully it goes through the basket.” Time and time again, it certainly did.
