Kelsey Plum Headlines Sparks in First WNBA All-Star Fan Voting Return
Kelsey Plum headlined the Los Angeles Sparks in the first WNBA All-Star 2025 voting returns, per a release.
Read more: Sparks' Owner Mark Walter Acquires Majority Ownership of Lakers From Buss Family
Plum slotted No. 11 among all WNBA players with 204,845 total votes, joining a trio of Sparks within the opening top-20.
Dearica Hamby and Rickea Jackson finished at No. 19 and No. 20 with 105,727 and 97,767 votes.
Your Sparks are in the Top 20, but let's make sure they finish in the Top 10! 🏎️🏁
— Los Angeles Sparks (@LASparks) June 20, 2025
VOTE 🗳️ https://t.co/GLWTtjZCDf pic.twitter.com/VhicVKntj5
In a month-long lead up to the league's star-studded event, the Los Angeles Sparks continue to advocate for Kelsey Plum, Dearica Hamby, Rickea Jackson and Azura Stevens in voting promotions.
Of the highlighted four, just Plum and Hamby have previous All-Star Game experience.
“Being selected to the All-Star team is a tremendous honor and I’m excited to head to Phoenix to compete,” Hamby said, per a release, prior to last year's event. “This points to the hard work that I’ve put in during the offseason and in games so far, but it’s also thanks to my great teammates and coaches who have trusted me in a leadership role with our team.”
Dearica Hamby searching for her second straight double-double after a 10-point, 12-rebound outing on Saturday.
— Ben Geffner (@BenGeffner) June 18, 2025
Expect her to take on a majority of the Sparks’ scoring tonight with Plum & Sims both out. pic.twitter.com/arwnXMZF86
Read more: Sparks' Cameron Brink and Sue Bird Argue Controversial WNBA Roster Rule
Plum also has three All-Star selections in each of the past three years — including All-Star MVP honors in 2022 after scoring 30 points on 12-for-18 shooting.
She followed up the honor by pouring in 30 points for Team Wilson in 2023, then nine points and six assists for Team USA in 2024.
The mid-summer event — to be held for the first-ever time at Indiana's Gainbridge Fieldhouse on July 18-19 — was sold out nearly three months prior on April 29, per a league announcement.
More Sparks news:
A'ja Wilson Speaks Out on Losing Kelsey Plum to Sparks
Sparks' Kelsey Plum Reacts to Georgia Amoore's ACL Injury
International Legend Reveals Reason For Rejoining LA
Sparks Waive Two Players Ahead of 2025 Season
Sparks’ Cameron Brink Revisits Feeling After Tearing ACL
For more news and notes on the Los Angeles Sparks, visit Los Angeles Sparks on SI.
Ben Geffner is an award-winning sports journalist and current student at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. A greater Los Angeles native now with countless years of extensive and dedicated experience — including beat reporting, writing, play-by-play broadcast, television anchoring, podcasting and video production — Ben remains eager to contribute as credentialed media covering the LA Sparks.
Follow BenGeffner