In a massive three-team trade, the Seattle Storm are trading Jewell Loyd to the Las Vegas Aces in a deal that will see star guard Kelsey Plum move to the Los Angeles Sparks, a league source confirmed to The Athletic on Sunday. As part of the deal, the Sparks’ Li Yueru will go to the Storm.
Plum helped the Aces win consecutive WNBA championships in 2022 and 2023. Loyd, a six-time All-Star, requested a trade last month out of Seattle
When you combine the records, the team success, the sellouts and the "what is she going to do next?" factor — has any Washington Husky had a greater impact than Kelsey Plum?
A celebration of Kelsey Plum at Washington, followed by a decisive win by the current squad, showed fans why they should keep showing up.
Some of the WNBA's biggest stars are reportedly on the move with a major three-team trade. On Sunday, ESPN's Shams Charania, Ramona Shelburne, Alexa
And because of that, Washington will lift her No. 10 jersey in the Alaska Airlines Arena rafters at halftime during Saturday’s 2 p.m. sellout game against Purdue where it’ll hang alongside Husky hoops greats Bob Houbregs (25), Brandon Roy (3) and Isaiah Thomas (2) and volleyball legends Krista Vansant (16) and Courtney Thompson (3).
Washington would retire Kelsey Plum’s number. Eight years after she graduated, it happened. At halftime of its game against Purdue on
Beyond the stars who headlined the blockbuster trade, the package includes the Aces receiving the No. 13 pick in the 2025 draft from Los Angeles, and the Sparks receiving the No. 9 pick and a 2026 second-round pick from Seattle.
Sunday's blockbuster trade sent Jewell Loyd to Las Vegas, Kelsey Plum to L.A. and possibly positioned Seattle to make a play for Paige Bueckers.
Kelsey Plum is headed to Los Angeles as part of a three-way trade that will send Jewell Loyd to the Las Vegas Aces, according to a person familiar with the deal.
After parting ways with Curt Miller and replacing him with longtime University of Utah coach Lynne Roberts in November, the Sparks are making a win-now move with this deal. Cameron Brink and Rickea Jackson both thoroughly impressed as rookies last season and are expected to take a leap, though the former is coming off a torn ACL.