WNBA Champion Chelsea Grey Is Having Her Second

Three-time WNBA champion and five-time All-Star Chelsea Grey of the Las Vegas Aces is having her second.

And rightfully so.

Not solely is she recent off of two back-to-back WNBA Championships, the Adidas athlete lately joined the ACC Community (ACCN) as a school basketball analyst. So in fact she took the time to benefit from the fruits of her labor, in her metropolis (Las Vegas, that’s), throughout one of many largest sporting occasions on the planet — the Tremendous Bowl. And he or she couldn’t be prouder to characterize.

“After I first signed right here, the issue about coming right here is it’s a giant small city,” she tells ESSENCE at an Adidas gifting suite on the Conrad Resort in Las Vegas. “All people is coming right here now. Clearly it had leisure and playing, however you’re seeing the intersection of the workforce with tech, after which you may have music, after which you may have sport, and all of that’s sort of mixed. And so it’s been fairly cool to be part of that and be part of that progress.”

Grey additionally describes the enjoyment of being part of profitable tradition that makes her time in Vegas magical. “We introduced the primary skilled championship right here in Las Vegas,” she beams. “And being part of historical past, you’ll be able to write your title that you’re a a part of making historical past, and I feel that’s fairly cool.”

A expertise like Grey doesn’t simply occur in a single day, however with a number of resilience, arduous work and love of the sport. “I had a number of brothers that basically have been into sports activities — basketball, soccer, baseball,” she recollects of how her love of sport developed at a younger age. “So I used to be simply surrounded by sports activities on a regular basis… I simply actually gravitated to the competitors of it, with the ability to be exterior.”

Along with her WNBA accolades, Grey was an All-American in school at Duke, guiding the Blue Devils to 2 ACC Event Championships, three ACC common season titles and three journeys to the NCAA Elite Eight throughout her 4 years (2010-14). Holding a hometown reference to fellow level guard Damian Lillard, Adidas even launched Grey’s personal colorway of the adidas Dame 8 final yr.

The connection to Adidas is what sparked her curiosity in her subsequent act. “I do need to one way or the other get into music one way or the other,” she shares. “What that appears like, I don’t actually know. And I’m beginning to get again into style extra.”