{"id":84727,"date":"2025-07-23T02:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T02:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/84727\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T02:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T02:05:08","slug":"hbcu-basketball-player-celebrates-her-sister-a-wnba-all-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/84727\/","title":{"rendered":"HBCU basketball player celebrates her sister, a WNBA All-Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hbcugameday.com\/category\/swac\/alabama-state\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alabama State<\/a> forward <strong>Ashley Gray<\/strong> took a break from summer training to celebrate a proud family milestone\u2014supporting her older sister <strong>Allisha Gray<\/strong>, who suited up as an All-Star for the <strong>Atlanta Dream<\/strong> at the <strong>2025 WNBA All-Star Game<\/strong> in Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>The sisters shared a special moment courtside as Ashley posed with Allisha in full uniform, proudly repping the Dream and the WNBA on basketball\u2019s biggest summer stage. The appearance marked <strong>Allisha\u2019s third career All-Star selection<\/strong>, following another strong season as a two-way guard in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Gray, entering her junior season at <strong>Alabama State<\/strong>, has been carving out her own collegiate path. In 2023\u201324, she played in <strong>22 games<\/strong> with <strong>five starts<\/strong>, averaging <strong>2.0 points and 2.0 rebounds per game<\/strong>. She logged a season-high <strong>11 points<\/strong> at Mississippi Valley State and pulled down <strong>eight rebounds<\/strong> against Bethune-Cookman.<\/p>\n<p>A native of <strong>Sandersville, Georgia<\/strong>, Ashley played high school ball at <strong>Washington County High School<\/strong>, where she scored over 1,000 career points and was named <strong>First-Team All-State<\/strong>. Fittingly, she won the <strong>Allisha Gray MVP Award<\/strong> during her prep career\u2014named in honor of her WNBA sister.<\/p>\n<p>Now majoring in <strong>Early Childhood Education<\/strong>, Ashley continues to build her identity as both a student and athlete. But this summer, the spotlight belonged to Allisha\u2014and Ashley was right there, beaming with pride, soaking in a family legacy built on hustle, heart, and high-level hoops.<\/p>\n<p>Allisha Gray is averaging 18.4 points per game this season, tops for her Atlanta Dream squad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Career Highlights, Awards and Milestones\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>WNBA Rookie of the Year (2017)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>3 x WNBA All-Star<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Olympic Gold Medalist (2020)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Won gold in the inaugural 3\u00d73 basketball event at the Tokyo Olympics<\/li>\n<li><strong>USA Basketball 3\u00d73 Athlete of the Year (2021)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>First player in WNBA history to win both the Skills Challenge &amp; 3-Point Contest in the same night (2024)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>WNBA All-Rookie Team (2017)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>WNBA Rookie of the Month (May &amp; June 2017)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>2 x 2025 WNBA Eastern Conference Player of the Week<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>2 x 2025 AP Player of the Week\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>2025 WNBA Kia Eastern Conference Player of the Month (May, June)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alabama State forward Ashley Gray took a break from summer training to celebrate a proud family milestone\u2014supporting her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":84728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[23327,1522,57355,57356,1503,16548,57357,51271,62,57358,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-84727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-alabama-state","9":"tag-allisha-gray","10":"tag-ashley-gray","11":"tag-asu-hornets","12":"tag-atlanta-dream","13":"tag-hbcu","14":"tag-hbcu-basketball","15":"tag-hbcu-sports","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-swac","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114900102301282311","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}