During a media availability session over WNBA All-Star Weekend in Phoenix, Kelsey Plum gave a hilarious retort to the suggestion that the Aces were in trouble earlier in the season.
“When you take out a player like Chelsea Gray, we’ve been constructed like a cake and when you take out the sugar from the cake, it’s like cornbread,” Plum said. “So that’s what everyone saw the first ten games. Cornbread that had no honey butter on it. We just needed to get our ingredients back together, that’s really all that was.”
Chelsea Gray missed the Aces’ first 12 games of the season, making her 2024 debut on June 19 against the Seattle Storm. Gray came off the bench for her first two games back and had been on a minutes restriction, but she’s been back in the starting lineup and provided a meaningful difference.
Since Gray has returned to the lineup, the Aces have gone 10-2 and have two separate win streaks of six and four games. They’ve shot up to the top of the Western Conference standings and trail both the Minnesota Lynx and Storm by only a half a game. Gray’s numbers haven’t quite come around yet, she’s been averaging 7.3 points, 2.8 rebounds and 3.8 assists while shooting 39 percent from the field and 24 percent from the three-point line, but her mere presence makes the Aces that much better.
