The biggest story of the 2025 WNBA season, which got underway on Friday night, is the debut of the newest team in the league, the expansion Golden State Valkyries. And the biggest transaction of the offseason was the trade that sent three-time All-Star and two-time champion Kelsey Plum from the Las Vegas Aces to the Los Angeles Sparks.
On Friday at the Chase Center, the latter got the better of the former. The Valkyries played the first game in what I can only assume will be a long and illustrious history, but a superstar showing by Plum was too much for them to handle, with Los Angeles winning 84-67 in front of a sold-out crowd of 18,064, which included Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr, Warriors players Jonathan Kuminga, Brandin Podziemski, Kevon Looney, and Buddy Hield, and Joe Lacob, the owner of both franchises.