{"id":912970,"date":"2026-07-04T23:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T23:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/912970\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T23:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T23:23:13","slug":"dream-star-allisha-gray-calls-out-trash-wnba-refs-during-in-game-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/912970\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream star Allisha Gray calls out &#8216;trash&#8217; WNBA refs during in-game interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Golden State Valkyries beat the Atlanta Dream 88-83 on Saturday afternoon. It was an especially frustrating contest for Dream All-Star Allisha Gray who made just 5 of 17 field goal attempts in the game but finished with 22 points because she shot 16 free throws in the game, making 11. Anytime a player shoots 16 free throws, you know they took a beating and Gray has the video evidence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the second quarter Gray took a shot to the face from Valkyries\u2019 forward Cecilia Zandalasini. Gray went down but got right back up and headed towards Zandalasini. Teammate Rhyne Howard cut her off and kept the situation from escalating, but Gray still ended up with a technical foul by the time the dust had settled. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebiglead.com\/2026-atlanta-dream-preview-projections-and-players-to-watch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Atlanta Dream preview, projections, and players to watch<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gray was interviewed between the third and fourth quarters on CBS and she let it slip how she really felt about the job the referees were doing in the game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou just gotta keep playing,\u201d said Gray. \u201cI mean, the refs are trash but hey, you keep moving on from that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s possible the referees heard her because she then shot eight free throws in the fourth quarter. Unfortunately, as noted above, it just wasn\u2019t enough. That\u2019s been a common theme recently. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Dream started the season 12-4 but have now lost five straight games which is the worst active losing streak in the league. If there\u2019s something to be optimistic about it\u2019s the fact that the Dream are not going to see the Valkyries again this season. Golden State has beaten them three times in the last 11 days in what will be their only three meetings of the season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Golden State Valkyries beat the Atlanta Dream 88-83 on Saturday afternoon. It was an especially frustrating contest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":912971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49],"tags":[1522,1503,1322,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":["post-912970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-allisha-gray","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-featured","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wnba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116864287002845943","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912970","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=912970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}