PHOENIX — Dinner is on Allisha Gray.
The Atlanta Dream guard took home a payday nearly equivalent to her annual salary after making WNBA history Friday night by becoming the first player to win the skills challenge and the 3-point contest in the same year.
For her wins, Gray won $5,150 from the WNBA and $110,000 from Aflac, the insurance company that announced Thursday it would supplement the league’s prize money with $55,000 for each event’s winner. Gray’s yearly salary is $185,000.
She’s ready to splurge a bit and take her Dream teammates out to dinner, but there’s one caveat.
“For my team, yeah, they gotta plan it,” Gray said. “I’ll just pay the bill.”
After going first in the 3-point finals and scoring 22 points, she had to hold her breath on the final shot of the contest. Fellow finalist Jonquel Jones of the New York Liberty was down to her last shot, a money ball that had she made, would’ve given her the win…
