{"id":853685,"date":"2026-08-11T03:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853685\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T03:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:10:10","slug":"phoenix-mercury-rule-kelsey-plum-out-vs-los-angeles-sparks-with-leg-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853685\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Mercury rule Kelsey Plum out vs. Los Angeles Sparks with leg injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Phoenix Mercury guard Kelsey Plum will miss her first game against her former team &#8212; the Los Angeles Sparks\u00a0&#8212; on Tuesday due to a lower left leg injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Plum suffered the injury in Sunday&#8217;s loss to the Washington Mystics; she exited the game after 14 minutes due to what the team called left calf tightness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Plum had been sidelined since June 21 due to a lower left leg injury, and only made her return in her Mercury debut on Aug. 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">&#8220;We wanted to be safe,&#8221; Mercury coach Nate Tibbetts said of Plum&#8217;s exit after Sunday&#8217;s game. &#8220;We&#8217;ll just see in the next couple days how it looks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The game against the Mystics was Plum&#8217;s fourth in a Mercury jersey after she was acquired in a blockbuster deal on Aug. 1. Enjoying the best season in her 10th year in the league, Plum was seen as the prize of last week&#8217;s deadline. She&#8217;s just the fourth WNBA All-Star to be traded at the midseason deadline in league history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Plum is averaging 22.3 points on the season and had performances of 20, 19 and 25 points for Phoenix before the injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoenix Mercury guard Kelsey Plum will miss her first game against her former team &#8212; the Los Angeles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,244246,99669,82,630],"class_list":["post-853685","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-phoenix-mercury-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-151","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853685","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=853685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}