Las Vegas Aces guard Kelsey Plum fired in 30 points to equal the WNBA All-Star Game record as Team Wilson cruised to a 134-112 win over Team Stewart in Chicago.
Plum connected on 12 of 18 field goal tries, including five of 11 from three-point range, and added three assists to be named Most Valuable Player.
The only other player to net 30 in an All-Star Game was Maya Moore in 2015, while Plum also set the record for most field goals made in a WNBA All-Star Game, besting the previous record of 11 shared by Shoni Schimmel (2014) and Nneka Ogwumike (2017).
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Sylvia Fowles does it all in this play with a brilliant steal followed up by a wicked one-handed slam in the WNBA All-Star game.
Six other players hit double figures for Team Wilson, picked by Las Vegas star A’ja Wilson, who along with Seattle’s Breanna Stewart finished as the top two vote-getters in fan balloting.
Sabrina Ionescu (New York) scored 19 points, while Candace Parker (Chicago) added 15.
Rhyne Howard (Atlanta) came off the bench to hit for 13, while Wilson, Dearica Hamby (Las Vegas) and Brionna Jones (Connecticut) each netted 10.
Team Wilson hit 53.1 per cent from the field and collected 37 assists on 51 made buckets.
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The WNBA paid tribute Brittany Griner, currently imprisoned on drug charges in Russia, at the All-Star game.
Connecticut’s Jonquel Jones starred for Team Stewart with 29 points and 13 rebounds, including the first four-point shot less than three minutes into the game. Jewell Loyd (Seattle) scored 21 points, all on three-pointers, while Stewart added 14.
Nneka Ogwumike (Los Angeles) hit for 12 points and Arike Ogunbowale (Dallas) tallied 11, but their efforts proved to be fruitless as Team Stewart made only 42.9 per cent of its field goals and connected on just 18 of its 60 3-point attempts.
Sylvia Fowles (Minnesota) and Sue Bird (Seattle) played their final All-Star games before their planned retirements at the end of the season.
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Candace Parker shows off her impressive accuracy from range with this shot from way back in the WNBA All-Star game.
Fowles started the scoring with a three-pointer and punctuated Team Wilson’s 36-11 second-quarter output with a steal and dunk that electrified the 9,572 crowd at Wintrust Arena.
Team Wilson took a 59-39 lead to the half and kept Team Stewart at bay with 75 second-half points.
Stewart’s lay-up pulled her team to 112-105 with 3:50 left, but Plum and Parker led a 10-2 spurt that was punctuated by an Ionescu three-pointer to quash hopes of a comeback.
