{"id":889989,"date":"2026-06-24T18:13:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T18:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/889989\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T18:13:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T18:13:32","slug":"sparks-guard-kelsey-plum-to-miss-time-with-a-lower-left-leg-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/889989\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparks guard Kelsey Plum to miss time with a lower left leg injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Sparks<\/a> are going to have to get through another stretch without Kelsey Plum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Plum, who missed three games with a right ankle sprain<\/a> earlier this season, is out with a lower left leg injury and will be re-evaluated in four weeks, the team announced Wednesday morning. That means she will miss at least the next 10 games, taking the Sparks to the WNBA All-Star break.<\/p>\n

It had seemed like Plum was out of the woods after she came back from her ankle injury. Plum scored 43 points in a game against the Phoenix Mercury on June 14 and didn\u2019t miss a beat in her return. She is second in the WNBA in scoring with 23.9 points per game and sixth in the league with 6.4 assists per contest.<\/p>\n

Without her, the Sparks (8-8) have struggled to score in an already inconsistent campaign. They are 7-5 with Plum in the lineup and are 1-3 in games she has missed.<\/p>\n

Head coach Lynne Roberts and several Sparks players have referred to Plum as the \u201chead of the snake\u201d of the team\u2019s offense. She is shooting an efficient 52.7% from the field and 38.3% from three-point range this season.<\/p>\n

When Plum previously missed time, the Sparks started a backcourt featuring Erica Wheeler and Ariel Atkins with Rae Burrell as the small forward. Wheeler has started next to Plum often for a double point guard backcourt, but without her they have to change the way they play offense again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sparks are going to have to get through another stretch without Kelsey Plum. Plum, who missed three…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":889990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49],"tags":[1501,360887,48329,1910,5610,360886,43367,1502,449,5950,5612,4232,62,3007,24565,6620,67,132,68,232],"class_list":["post-889989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ariel-atkins","tag-backcourt","tag-erica-wheeler","tag-game","tag-kelsey-plum","tag-low-left-leg-injury","tag-offense","tag-phoenix-mercury","tag-point","tag-season","tag-spark","tag-sparks","tag-sports","tag-team","tag-three-point-range","tag-time","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wnba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116806445697222508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}