WNBA Las Vegas Aces Guard Kelsey Plum: ‘Love is Patient and Kind’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Las Vegas Aces guard Kelsey Plum is focusing on her faith and enjoying her off-season after her team won the WNBA finals.
In a photo dump the athlete shared on her social media, she included 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, which reads,
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!
Plum also shared a screenshot of Madison Ryann Ward’s song, “Chosen,” with lyrics that say,
God made no mistakeYou are chosenFor beautiful thingsDon’t get caught up in comparisonKeep it original like you beenThis is the time to be all you can
Plum recently launched her own signature shoe that promotes mental health awareness.
“Really proud to share my Breakthru 4 Mental Health Awareness shoes,” she wrote. “Mental health is very important to me, so these mean a lot to be able to wear!”
“Mental health for me is very important,” she added. “Very important to talk about. Very important to be vulnerable, very important to just be open and share what I’ve gone through.”
She’s also open about how important her faith is. After a difficult start to 2023, she turned to God for help.
“I think a lot of times when we talk about faith, it’s looking at something bigger than yourself. There’s purpose in it,” she explained.
“Faith is things you can’t see but you know. I know that God has always had a plan for me, and I always just pray that He directs my steps and just makes it really clear of what I should do, where I should go.”
Movieguide® previously reported on Plum:
Las Vegas Aces guard, Kelsey Plum, sat down to discuss the importance of her mental health and that she is grateful she tore her achilles.
“We Need to Talk” posted a video of Plum on their Instagram and wrote, “‘By the grace of God I tore my achilles.’ Kelsey Plum on her mental health and how injury was the best thing for her mental health and her career. #WNBA #sports #mentalhealth #womenssports #sportsreels #basketball #womensbasketball”
“I knew me when I was struggling with mental health,” Plum began. “April 13, 2017 was one of the toughest days of my life.”
The San Antonio Stars selected Kelsey Plum as the first pick in the WNBA draft.
“I get drafted number 1. Everyone else went out to party, I acted like I was going, forgot my wallet ‘on purpose’ but decided to go to bed. I was just in a really low point. I felt like I didn’t really have a purpose and I just felt so empty, so unfulfilled.”
But then everything changed for Plum, but not in the way that many would have expected.
“But by the grace of God I tore my Achilles. My life, I don’t like how it is. Let’s change it. And so it was just a complete spiritual, physical, and emotional revamp. Changed my perspective, Changed how I live on a day-to-day. Still to this day I think it was the best thing for my career. I try to tell kids now, all these things are external fulfillment but if you’re not okay inside it will never be enough.
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