The Long-Awaited Promise of Kelsey Plum

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🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Kelsey Plum was one of the most dominant college basketball players we have ever seen, a top draft pick, and a would-be franchise savior for the team that picked her, the San Antonio Stars (now the Las Vegas Aces). But the NCAA’s all-time leading scorer struggled with her transition to the pros, and it turned out her team didn’t need saving…she did. Now in her fifth season in the WNBA, Plum is finally playing to her potential and helped lead the Aces to the #1 overall seed in the playoffs. Katie Barnes tells us the story of how, after years of searching, Kelsey Plum has found herself, both on and off the court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Katie Barnes, welcome back to ESPN daily.
0:02.5	Thanks for having me back, Pablo.
0:04.1	So I have asked you back because we are in the semi-finals of the WMBA playoffs right now.
0:08.7	And the Las Vegas Aces, they have this point guard, their star point guard who you just spent
0:14.0	a whole lot of quality time with Kelsey Plum.
0:17.2	And I just don't want to bury the lead here any further, Katie, because we are here to talk about poop.
0:23.4	We are here to talk about poop.
0:24.9	I got lunch with Kelsey at this restaurant called Flower Child outside of Las Vegas.
0:42.8	I had already heard a little bit about young Kelsey Plum picking up poop in her backyard.
0:49.5	And I wanted to ask her about it.
0:50.9	I don't believe it well. Yeah, let's talk about the dog poop. Okay. Let me add like 150-pound dog.
0:55.9	Do you know how the greater Swiss mound dog is?
0:57.7	No, but I'll look it up.
0:58.8	It's, yeah, it looks like a lot wilder, but a little bit bigger.
1:02.0	And you know, figure the dog bigger this s***.
1:04.2	And so she just to play horse with her dad.
1:08.8	And he would challenge her to these games.
1:11.3	And the loser would have to pick up the poop from their giant dog Riley Jane in the backyard.
1:17.4	He realized like, oh, I'm just going to, like, I'm going to beat her a horse.
1:22.0	And every time I beat her, she has to pick up dog poop.
1:25.2	And nine year old Kelsey Plum lost a lot.
1:28.7	When I say anything, I have like four different bags.
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