Chelsea Gray

Chelsea Gray

Gray at the WNBA Finals 2016
No. 12 – Los Angeles Sparks
Position Point guard
League WNBA
Personal information
Born (1992-10-08) October 8, 1992
Hayward, California
Nationality American
Listed height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Listed weight 170 lb (77 kg)
Career information
High school St. Mary's (Stockton, California)
College Duke (2010–2014)
WNBA draft 2014 / Round: 1 / Pick: 11th overall
Selected by the Connecticut Sun
Playing career 2014–present
Career history
2014–2015 Hapoel Rishon Le-Zion
2015 Connecticut Sun
2015 Uni Girona CB
2015–present Abdullah Gul University Kayseri
2016–present Los Angeles Sparks
Career highlights and awards
Stats at WNBA.com

Chelsea Nichelle Gray (born October 8, 1992) is a professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).[1] She was the eleventh pick in the 2014 WNBA Draft. She missed the 2014 WNBA season due to injury, but she made her debut with the Sun in the 2015 WNBA season.

College career

Joanne P. McCallie coached Duke's women's basketball team during the time Gray played for the Duke Blue Devils. In Gray's junior year at Duke (February 2013), she fractured her knee which caused her to be sidelined the rest of her junior year and her whole senior year. Despite this she was drafted to the Connecticut Sun in 2014.[2]

College statistics

Source[3]

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high
Year Team GP Points FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2010-11 Duke 34 297 43.2 39.8 80.5 3.3 2.5 1.9 0.2 8.7
2011-12 Duke 33 413 45.8 37.7 82.1 4.9 6.1 2.8 0.4 12.5
2012-13 Duke 25 316 42.1 40.7 85.1 5.3 5.4 3.6 0.1 12.6
2013-14 Duke 17 184 50.4 33.3 74.5 4.2 7.2 2.9 0.2 10.8
Career Duke 109 1210 44.9 38.5 81.4 4.4 5.0 2.7 0.2 11.1

WNBA career

Gray was drafted 11th overall by the Connecticut Sun in the 2014 WNBA draft. She sat out the 2014 season while recovering from a right knee injury that she sustained in January of her senior year while playing at Duke.[4] Gray would come back healthy in time for the 2015 season. Coming off the bench for the Sun, she averaged 6.9 ppg. Prior to the 2016 season, Gray was traded to the Los Angeles Sparks along with two first round picks in the 2016 WNBA draft and a first round pick in the 2017 WNBA draft in exchange for draft rights to Jonquel Jones and the 17th pick in the 2016 WNBA Draft.[5] Joining forces with Candace Parker, Kristi Toliver and Nneka Ogwumike, Gray would come off the bench as the back-up point guard on the Sparks roster, playing 33 games with 1 start and averaging 5.9 ppg. The Sparks were a championship contender in the league, finishing 26-8. The Sparks were the number 2 seed in the league with a double-bye to the semi-finals (the last round before the WNBA Finals) facing the Chicago Sky due to the WNBA's new playoff format. The Sparks defeated the Sky 3-1 in the series, advancing to the WNBA Finals for the first time since 2003. In the Finals, the Sparks were up against the championship-defending Minnesota Lynx. Gray's playing time would be slightly increased in the Finals and was able to provide an offensive spark off the bench for the Sparks. In Game 4 with the Sparks up 2-1, Gray scored a team-high 20 points off the bench in 24 minutes of play, but the Sparks still lost the game. In the decisive Game 5, Gray scored 11 consecutive points in the fourth quarter for the Sparks. The Sparks would win Game 5 and the 2016 WNBA Championship.[6]

WNBA career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game  RPG  Rebounds per game
 APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game  BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game
 TO  Turnovers per game  FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 Bold  Career high League leader

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2015 Connecticut 34 0 16.0 .424 .348 .816 3.1 2.3 0.6 0.1 1.7 6.9
2016 Los Angeles 33 1 16.4 .452 .304 .780 3.3 2.2 0.4 0.1 1.2 5.9
Career 2 years, 2 teams 67 1 16.2 .436 .330 .798 2.0 2.4 0.6 0.1 1.5 6.4

Postseason

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2016 Los Angeles 9 0 22.1 .406 .391 .833 1.7 2.8 1.1 0.0 2.4 9.0
Career 1 year, 1 team 9 0 22.1 .406 .391 .833 1.7 2.8 1.1 0.0 2.4 9.0

Overseas career

Prior to her first WNBA season, Gray played in Israel for Hapoel Rishon Le-Zion in the 2014-15 off-season. In the 2015-16 off-season, Gray played in Spain for Uni Girona CB for the first portion of the off-season and spent the second portion of the off-season playing in Turkey for Abdullah Gul University.[7][8] In June 2016, Gray re-signed with Abdullah Gul University for the 2016-17 off-season.[9]

Personal life

Gray has participated in Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). In her free time, she has helped work out and train younger kids in AAU to become better athletes.[10]

References

  1. ↑ WNBA.com: Chelsea Gray Profile
  2. ↑ Gray, Liston selected in first round of WNBA Draft | The Herald-Sun
  3. ↑ "NCAA® Career Statistics". web1.ncaa.org. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
  4. ↑ http://www.wnba.com/player/chelsea-gray/#/bio
  5. ↑ http://sparks.wnba.com/sparks-acquire-chelsea-gray-connecticut-sun-exchange-draft-rights-guard-jonquel-jones-2017-first-round-pick/
  6. ↑ http://www.wmtw.com/article/los-angeles-sparks-win-wnba-title/7007118
  7. ↑ http://www.wnba.com/wnba-players-playing-overseas/
  8. ↑ http://www.womensbasketball247.com/2015/11/abdullah-gul-university-signs-chelsea-gray/
  9. ↑ http://www.eurobasket.com/Turkey/news/448975/Abdullah-Gul-re-sign-with-Chelsea-Gray
  10. ↑ SUN: Gray Matters
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