In our last update on the Los Angeles Sparks, the team was 2-3 and showing signs of becoming the playoff-contending team they aspire to be.
Since then, it’s been a bevy of losses in Los Angeles as the Sparks have dropped four of their last five games. Their most recent loss on Monday against the Golden State Valkyries presented a new way for the Sparks to lose.
They didn’t lose in regulation, instead delaying the inevitable by coming up short in overtime against the expansion team from NorCal by making just one basket in the last five minutes of the game. Afterwards, Kelsey Plum expressed her frustration not with the result or the team’s poor play down the stretch, but with how the game was officiated.
Kelsey Plum goes off about not getting foul calls in the Sparks’ 89-81 overtime loss to the Golden State Valkyries at home.
Plum said she anticipates being fined but she said it was important to advocate for herself.
Sparks coach Lynne Roberts supported Plum’s opinion. pic.twitter.com/3zsJsb7YFV
— John W. Davis (@johnwdavis) June 10, 2025
While calls can be debated until the end of time, losing by such a narrow margin and feeling as though you got the short end of the stick made Plum respond this way postgame. We’ll see if the WNBA responds in kind with a…
