{"id":696198,"date":"2026-05-27T02:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/696198\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T02:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:30:08","slug":"wnbas-top-scorer-kelsey-plum-hurts-ankle-out-at-least-1-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/696198\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA&#8217;s top scorer Kelsey Plum hurts ankle, out at least 1 week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Four-time WNBA All-Star Kelsey Plum suffered an ankle sprain during practice Tuesday and will be reevaluated in one week, the Los Angeles Sparks announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In her second season with the Sparks, Plum is the WNBA&#8217;s leading scorer at 26.8 points per game through six contests, while shooting a blistering 58.9% from the field and 48.8% from the 3-point arc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The former No. 1 pick has been relatively healthy in recent years, missing only four games combined across the previous four seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Sparks &#8212; who in the offseason also brought in Nneka Ogwumike and Ariel Atkins &#8212; sit at 3-3 on the season and are coming off a 101-95 win over the defending champion Las Vegas Aces in which Plum finished with 38 points and nine assists against her former team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Los Angeles next faces the Washington Mystics on Friday, the Connecticut Sun on Saturday and the Aces again on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four-time WNBA All-Star Kelsey Plum suffered an ankle sprain during practice Tuesday and will be reevaluated in one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,244246,82,630],"class_list":["post-696198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-los-angeles-sparks-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-149","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}