{"id":462047,"date":"2026-05-27T05:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/462047\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T05:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:24:17","slug":"sparks-kelsey-plum-out-at-least-a-week-because-of-sprained-ankle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/462047\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparks&#8217; Kelsey Plum out at least a week because of sprained ankle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/sparks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sparks<\/a> guard <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/wnba\/players\/p\/plumke01w.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kelsey Plum<\/a> sprained her ankle during practice Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The team said she\u2019ll be reevaluated next week.<\/p>\n<p>Plum is leading the WNBA in scoring with a career-best 26.8 points per game, while shooting 59% from the floor and 49% from three-point range. Her 6.3 assists average is also a career high.<\/p>\n<p>Plum is in her second season with the Sparks after being acquired in a trade from the Las Vegas Aces during the 2025 offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sparks guard Kelsey Plum sprained her ankle during practice Tuesday. The team said she\u2019ll be reevaluated next week.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[34759,215090,63287,1022,85,46,215087,113973,6376,559,215089,126354,46602,41687,105,3878,215088,2709],"class_list":["post-462047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ankle","tag-career-high","tag-floor","tag-game","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-kelsey-plum","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-point","tag-practice-tuesday","tag-second-season","tag-spark","tag-sparks","tag-sports","tag-team","tag-three-point-range","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}