KELSEY PLUMB claims that feeling “sexy” has helped her basketball career, and it’s easy to understand why.
Her remarkable rise in the WNBA has matched with her enjoyment of fashion.
Plum will get another chance to show off her skills this weekend when the 2023 WNBA All Star Game takes place on July 15 at the Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas Aces guard will compete in the skills competition as well as play for Team Wilson, which is led by fellow Aces player A’ja Wilson.
The championship game follows Plum’s career-high 40 points on 14-of-18 shooting in the Aces’ 113-89 victory over the Minnesota Lynx on July 9.
Plum’s field goal percentage of 77.8 percent is the highest in WNBA history in a 40-point game.
Meanwhile, the 28-year-old recently launched a spring/summer collection for lifestyle and apparel brand GSTQ, whom she joined as a fashion ambassador last summer.
“My relationship with basketball and fashion intersect because of a confidence that I have,” Plum told Flaunt.
“I think when you play, especially for me, I like to have a swag about me with my head held high.
“I like bold colors. I like to be a little bit edgy, a little bit sexy.
“I think that’s kinda how I play, a little bit on the edge and always taking risks.
“So they are definitely parallels.”
GSTQ was founded in 2021 by Dany Garcia, the XFL co-founder who is the ex-wife of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson.
“I never believed the saying when you look good, you feel good and when you feel good, you play good, but I changed my mind,” Plum added.
“When I walk into the tunnel, I feel sexy and empowered and I take that into the court.
“I feel sexy and fierce in GSTQ. I appreciate the ambition they have.”
Plum is a top-tier female basketball player in the United States.
She was the first overall choice in the 2017 WNBA Draft by the San Antonio Stars, who relocated to Las Vegas to become the Aces.
This happened just months after she became the NCAA Division I women’s basketball all-time scoring leader while playing for the University of Washington.
Plum won a WNBA championship with the Aces last year and was named All-Star Game MVP.
She also won a gold medal in the women’s 33 tournament at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics.
Plum made news in March when she expressed her displeasure with the Las Vegas Raiders trading her husband, Pro Bowl tight end Darren Waller, to the New York Jets.
The transaction separated the pair, who were both playing for Las Vegas-based sports teams at the time of their March 4 wedding.”Darren Waller JUST GOT MARRIED to Kelsey Plum of the Las Vegas Aces and Josh McDaniels’ wedding present was to trade him to the New York Giants,” former NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III said of the move.
“McDaniels is NOT a romantic.”
This led Plum to write in response: “Prolly cause he wasn’t invited to the wedding lol.”
