{"id":667290,"date":"2026-05-27T03:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/667290\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:37:10","slug":"sparks-kelsey-plum-out-at-least-a-week-because-of-sprained-ankle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/667290\/","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":667291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[37146,197040,41220,5460,10504,4677,4281,13544,291472,291473,31878,23629,99,1599,20465,1975,434],"class_list":["post-667290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ankle","tag-career-high","tag-floor","tag-game","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","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}