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Kelsey Plum made an impression in her first appearance since being traded. Michael Hirschuber \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
Aug. 3, 2026 Updated Aug. 4, 2026 12:04 am EDT<\/p>\n
In her debut for the Phoenix Mercury, Kelsey Plum put her new team in the win column.<\/p>\n
The nine-year veteran had the ball in her hands as her team trailed by 1 with about one minute to play. She tried to drive to the basket but was met by the 6-foot-7 frame of Kamilla Cardoso, so Plum dribbled out to the corner, sized up the Chicago Sky center, and drained the game-winning 3-pointer with 53.2 seconds remaining. The Mercury held the Sky scoreless for the rest of the game to win 106-101.<\/p>\n
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Plum finished with 20 points and four assists in 20 minutes in her first game for Phoenix. She shot 6 of 10, including making 3 of 5 3-pointers. She hadn\u2019t played since June 21 because of a lower leg injury and had no practice time with the Mercury, arriving in Chicago one day earlier after her trade from the Los Angeles Sparks<\/a>.<\/p>\n As she put it before the game: \u201cIt\u2019s a cocktail for success, as far as I\u2019m concerned.\u201d Her (joking) words proved prophetic.<\/p>\n Phoenix is 12-19, seven losses out of a playoff spot with 13 games left to play. A loss would have been catastrophic, and the Mercury appeared headed in that direction when they were down 7 with 7:22 to play. Instead, the new big three of Plum, Kahleah Copper and Alyssa Thomas combined for the next 11 points: Plum assisted Thomas on an and-1, then Copper and Thomas hit three more free throws before Plum delivered the dagger.<\/p>\n Aug 4, 2026<\/p>\n Connections: Sports Edition<\/p>\n Spot the pattern. Connect the terms<\/p>\n Find the hidden link between sports terms<\/p>\n Play today’s puzzle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelsey Plum made an impression in her first appearance since being traded. Michael Hirschuber \/ Getty Images Aug.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,3461,82,630],"class_list":["post-845458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-phoenix-mercury","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845458","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=845458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n