{"id":684682,"date":"2026-06-04T22:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/684682\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T22:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:09:09","slug":"injured-kelsey-plum-likely-to-return-for-sparks-next-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/684682\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured Kelsey Plum likely to return for Sparks’ next game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sparks<\/a> guard Kelsey Plum<\/a> should be set to return to action on Friday against the Dallas Wings.<\/p>\n

Plum, who leads the WNBA in scoring, missed the last three games with a sprained ankle injury<\/a> she sustained in practice. She practiced in full on Thursday, and head coach Lynne Roberts seemed optimistic that she would play.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think so,\u201d Roberts said when asked if Plum would play. \u201cShe looks good. Hopefully she can play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plum led the Sparks to a 101-95 win in Las Vegas<\/a> on May 23 and has been one of the best shooters in the league.<\/p>\n

She said she feels ready to play on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hated it,\u201d she said of watching from the bench. \u201cI have been just rehabbing like a maniac, sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber, red lighting my way back.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her absence, the Sparks went 1-2 and averaged 83 points, including their worst offensive game of the season on Tuesday in a loss to the Aces<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s kind of the engine that makes everything go,\u201d Roberts said on Thursday. \u201cWe\u2019ve sputtered a little bit offensively.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before this injury, Plum had missed only four games in her nine-year career because of injury.<\/p>\n

The Sparks are 4-5 after starting the season with high hopes to make a return to the postseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sparks guard Kelsey Plum should be set to return to action on Friday against the Dallas Wings. Plum,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[36413,2834,2310,10504,2114,8229,97001,297712,36408,26270,5190,31878,23629,99,16597,11484,434],"class_list":["post-684682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ankle-injury","tag-dallas-wings","tag-friday","tag-kelsey-plum","tag-las-vegas","tag-loss","tag-next-game","tag-red-lighting","tag-roberts","tag-scoring","tag-season","tag-spark","tag-sparks","tag-sports","tag-thursday","tag-tuesday","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684682","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=684682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684682\/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=684682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}