Kelsey Plum is headed to Los Angeles as part of a three-way trade that will send Jewell Loyd to the Las Vegas Aces, according to a person familiar with the deal. The Sparks traded the No. 2 pick in the draft and Li Yueru to Seattle.

Griner is testing the free-agent market for the first time in her career, her agent, Lindsay Kagawa Colas, told The Associated Press. If she heads to another team, the Phoenix Mercury could replace her with other free-agent bigs such as Emma Meesseman, Brionna Jones, Tina Charles or Natasha Howard.

The impact of Bryant’s career, and the ‘Mamba Mentality,’ carry on in the kind of way that almost makes you forget that he’s gone.

Somehow, with all that has happened between that awful moment and now, it remains surreal and hard to believe that it was five years ago today that Kobe Bean Bryant, along with his daughter Gianna and seven others,