Former Duke women’s basketball star [autotag]Chelsea Gray[/autotag] took a big step toward another WNBA championship on Tuesday night when the Las Vegas Aces beat the Seattle Storm 83-76.
The victory gave the Aces, who have won the previous two league titles, a 2-0 sweep in the best-of-three series to advance into the league semifinals.
Gray scored 12 points and dealt nine assists during Tuesday’s victory, a familiar stat line for the ‘Point Gawd’. She finished the first game of the series with 16 points and seven dimes.
While she recently won her second consecutive Olympic gold medal, becoming the first Duke women’s basketball alum to do so, 2024 has been a trying season for Gray. She injured her foot during last year’s WNBA Finals, missing the first 12 games of this season before finally returning to the court on June 19.
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Gray also won a WNBA championship with the Los Angeles Sparks in 2016, and she won Finals MVP honors in 2022 when Las Vegas started its dominant run.
The Aces face the New York Liberty, who finished with a league-best 32-8 record, in the second round. That best-of-five series begins on Saturday.