The Seattle Storm, Las Vegas Aces and Los Angeles Sparks acquired collectively on Sunday evening to reportedly full a blockbuster three-team commerce that may see two All-Star gamers and a number of other first-round draft picks all swap groups.
Six-time All-Star Jewell Loyd, who’s on the transfer from Seattle to Las Vegas, and Kelsey Plum, who goes from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, are the 2 greatest names concerned.
Listed here are the ultimate particulars, in accordance with ESPN:
Las Vegas receives: Loyd and No. 13 total decide in 2025 WNBA Draft (from Los Angeles)
Los Angeles receives: Plum and the No. 9 total decide within the 2025 WNBA Draft (from Seattle)
Seattle receives: Li Yueru and the No. 2 total decide within the 2025 WNBA draft, each from Los Angeles
The Storm are buying the No. 2 decide within the 2025 WNBA draft and Li Yueru from the Sparks on this three-team commerce, with the Sparks getting No. 9 from Seattle and the Aces receiving No. 13 from LA, sources inform me, @ramonashelburne, @alexaphilippou and @kendra__andrews. https://t.co/Di1CWmMyTF
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) January 27, 2025
Loyd, 31, joins an Aces crew that has been the most effective within the WNBA over the previous three years. They gained back-to-back championships in 2022 and 2023 earlier than dropping within the semifinals in 2024 to the eventual champion New York Liberty.
Previous to this commerce, she has spent her whole 10-year profession in Seattle, successful a Rookie of the 12 months award and two championships.
She had expressed a want to get a contemporary begin this offseason and can get precisely that on a loaded Vegas roster that ought to as soon as once more be the most effective groups within the league.
She averaged 19.7 factors per recreation in 2024 and has averaged 16.9 factors per recreation in her profession.
Plum has been an All-Star in Vegas in every of the previous three seasons and can give the Sparks a critical short-term improve as they attempt to enhance from a 2024 season that noticed them end with the league’s third-best file.
As for Seattle, this is a chance to get its personal contemporary begin and add a possible high-level younger expertise into its group. Notre Dame teammates Olivia Miles and Sonia Citron determine to be the subsequent two picks off the board after UConn’s Paige Bueckers (who’s broadly projected to be the No. 1 total decide to Dallas).
