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Report: Blockbuster three-team WNBA commerce has Jewell Loyd, Kelsey Plum on transfer

The Seattle Storm, Las Vegas Aces and Los Angeles Sparks got together on Sunday night to reportedly complete a blockbuster three-team trade that will see two All-Star players and several first-round draft picks all switch teams. Six-time All-Star Jewell Loyd, who is on the move from Seattle to Las Vegas, and Kelsey Plum, who goes

Report: Blockbuster three-team WNBA commerce has Jewell Loyd, Kelsey Plum on transfer

The Seattle Storm, Las Vegas Aces and Los Angeles Sparks bought collectively on Sunday evening to reportedly full a blockbuster three-team commerce that can see two All-Star gamers and several other first-round draft picks all change 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 largest names concerned.

Listed below are the ultimate particulars, in accordance with ESPN:

Las Vegas receives: Loyd and No. 13 general decide in 2025 WNBA Draft (from Los Angeles)

Los Angeles receives: Plum and the No. 9 general decide within the 2025 WNBA Draft (from Seattle)

Seattle receives: Li Yueru and the No. 2 general decide within the 2025 WNBA draft, each from Los Angeles

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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 workforce that has been top-of-the-line within the WNBA over the previous three years. They received back-to-back championships in 2022 and 2023 earlier than shedding 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 recent begin this offseason and can get precisely that on a loaded Vegas roster that ought to as soon as once more be top-of-the-line groups within the league. 

She averaged 19.7 factors per sport in 2024 and has averaged 16.9 factors per sport 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 report.

As for Seattle, this is a chance to get its personal recent begin and add a possible high-level younger expertise into its group. Notre Dame teammates Olivia Miles and Sonia Citron determine to be the following two picks off the board after UConn’s Paige Bueckers (who’s broadly projected to be the No. 1 general decide to Dallas).

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