The Seattle Storm are buying and selling six-time All Star Jewell Loyd to the Las Vegas Aces in a multi-team deal that can ship three-time All-Star Kelsey Plum to the Los Angeles Sparks, ESPN experiences.

In alternate, the Storm will obtain the No. 2 choose within the 2025 draft and reserve heart Li Yueru from the Sparks. The Sparks will obtain the No. 9 choose from the Storm, and the Aces will obtain the No. 13 choose from the Sparks, in line with the report.

Loyd, 31, joins the Aces after spending her first 10 WNBA seasons in Seattle. A former Rookie of the Yr, Loyd has made an All-Star workforce in every of the final 4 seasons and in six of the final seven. She joins an Aces workforce that gained consecutive WNBA championships in 2022 and 2023 however misplaced to the eventual champion New York Liberty in final season’s semifinals.

With the deal, the Aces obtain a two-way participant in Loyd as they retool for an try at returning to title competition. Loyd averaged 19.7 factors, 4.5 rebounds and three.6 assists final season.

Plum, 30, was a key participant for each of the Aces’ championship groups and made the All-Star workforce in every of the final three seasons. She’s spent her whole seven-season WNBA profession with the Aces franchise, together with in 2017 of their final season because the San Antonio Stars earlier than they relocated. She averaged 17.8 factors, 4.2 assists and a couple of.6 rebounds final season.

Plum joins a rebuilding Sparks workforce that completed in final place within the WNBA final season however has upside in second-year ahead Cameron Brink.

Each Loyd and Plum performed for Group USA’s gold-medal profitable workforce on the Paris Olympics final summer time.

The Storm earned the No. 5 seed and misplaced to the Aces within the first spherical of final season’s playoffs. The commerce of Loyd to safe the No. 2 choose indicators a rebuild in Seattle.