LAS VEGAS — CHELSEA GRAY LOVES cooking with her family as much as playing basketball with her Las Vegas Aces.
“Our big family time was always in the kitchen,” Gray said of growing up in California. “My parents and my brothers, chopping up stuff, figuring out what we were going to make.”
She jokes now that while her wife handles “just about everything else,” Gray is the primary cook in their home. Turkey meatballs are one of her specialties.
The same person who is so adept at putting together her favorite dishes also excels at orchestrating the Aces. Gray — nicknamed “Point Gawd” around the league — and the Aces look to take a commanding lead over the New York Liberty in the WNBA Finals in Game 2 on Wednesday (9 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN App) at Michelob Ultra Arena.
In Sunday’s best-of-five series opener, a 99-82 Aces win, Gray had 20 points, nine assists and six rebounds as part of a perimeter attack the Liberty couldn’t slow. In the regular season, she averaged 15.3 points and 7.3 assists; she’s at 16.7 and 6.8 in the…
