The WNBA All-Star Game is on Saturday night, but Friday still features plenty of fun events. The main attractions were the Kia Skills Challenge and STARRY 3-Point Contest. Before the event, Aflac stepped up by providing a $55,000 bonus for the winner of each event. The WNBA also chipped in $2,575 for each winner.
It turns out all the prize money went to the Atlanta Dream’s Allisha Gray, who won both events and will be taking some hardware home, along with a grand total of $115,150; that’s a pretty cool night in Arizona.
Gray’s first win came in the Skills Challenge, when she defeated the Phoenix Mercury’s Sophie Cunningham in the final round. Cunningham set the time to beat at 34.2 seconds. Gray was able to just edge that out with a 32.1-second performance.
Before the main attraction of the 3-Point Contest, we had the first-ever USA Basketball 3×3 Challenge, where Team USA met the U23 Team. The competition wasn’t just a novelty; Team USA is preparing for the Olympics and wanted to use this as a tune-up for that competition. The four Olympians are the Dream’s Rhyne Howard, the Los Angeles Sparks’ Dearcia Hamby, former WNBA player Cierra Burdick and TCU’s Hailey Van Lith. The U23 roster featured Christina Dalce of Maryland, Morgan Maly of Creighton, Cotie…
