LAS VEGAS — Kelsey Plum wasn’t herself. Projectile vomiting throughout the Las Vegas Aces’ opening game of the WNBA playoffs will have that effect.
But the guard also knew she needed to push past her subpar performance, and found herself figuring out the path ahead the next day in a peculiar setting.
“I sat at a sushi bar,” Plum said at an ensuing news conference. “And was just like, ‘You know what, I’m going to throw Game 1 out the window.'”
A’ja Wilson, seated next to Plum, stared at her Aces teammate and looked a bit queasy herself.
“After you threw up, you went and got sushi?” Wilson said.
“Hey,” Plum replied, “it worked.”
Indeed, Plum and the Aces overcame the Seattle Storm in the first round. But the semifinals have been a different story for the two-time defending WNBA champions. The New York Liberty lead 2-0 after taking the first two games at home in the best-of-five series. But whether it was Plum navigating a high-profile divorce and helping the Aces overcome their most regular-season losses in five years, or Las Vegas…
