Kelsey Plum is headed to the Sparks as part of a three-way trade that will send Jewell Loyd to the Las Vegas Aces, multiple sources reported.

The Sparks traded the No. 2 pick in the draft and Li Yueru to Seattle. The Sparks also received the No. 9 pick. The Aces got the 13th pick in the draft.

Plum helped the Aces win consecutive WNBA titles in 2022 and 2023. She was designated as the team’s franchise player on Jan. 11. She averaged 17.8 points and 4.2 assists last season.

Loyd last month requested a trade out of Seattle, where she had spent her entire career since getting drafted by the Storm in 2015. The 31-year-old averaged 19.7 points and 4.5 rebounds last season and is a six-time All-Star.

Acquiring Plum gives a veteran guard to the Sparks young core of Rickea Jackson and Cameron Brink and reunites her with her former Aces teammate Dearica Hamby. It also brings Plum closer to home as she grew up in Poway.

FIGURE SKATING

Ilia Malinin laid in the middle of the ice at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships as everyone else stood in ovation. He has that effect on people.

In another stunning display of athleticism, the reigning world champion landed six of his seven planned quad jumps — including the quad axel, the jump that only Malinin has ever landed in competition — and finished with 333.31 points after his free skate to win his third consecutive national championship in Wichita, Kan.

Andrew Torgashev landed a pair of quads during his free skate and finished second with 286.49 points, while Camden Pulkinen took advantage of a sloppy free skate from Jimmy Ma to secure the bronze medal with 252.92 points.

MOTORSPORTS

Roger Penske started his 59th season in motorsports the same way he closed last year — as a champion.

Porsche Penske Motorsport won the Rolex 24 at Daytona for the second consecutive year, and third time overall, to continue the domination “The Captain” flexed all of last season.

Penske opened 2024 by winning the most prestigious sports car race in North America, added a 20th victory in the Indianapolis 500, won a third consecutive NASCAR championship and his pair of Porsches won both the World Endurance Championship title and the IMSA crown.

Now back at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., for the Rolex, the same place and race where Team Penske debuted in 1966, Penske returned to Victory Lane. And, as he always does, the billionaire who turns 88 next month stayed awake and sat with the team on the timing stand for the entire 24 hours.

His two cars dominated the twice-round-the-clock endurance race and finished first and third. It was the No. 7 full-time IMSA entry that won, making it back-to-back victories for that car despite a different driver lineup.

Felipe Nasr won last year with Dane Cameron and Josef Newgarden, but Cameron was let go at the end of 2024 and Newgarden wasn’t part of this year’s Rolex lineup. So it was Nasr again, only this time he was paired with Nick Tandy, who will be his IMSA co-driver all season, and Laurens Vanthoor, Penske’s reigning WEC champion.

NFL

The Seattle Seahawks hired Klint Kubiak as their offensive coordinator.

Kubiak’s hiring ends a nearly three-week search for Seattle, which fired coordinator Ryan Grubb on Jan. 6 after the Seahawks finished 28th in the league in rushing under Grubb’s pass-happy attack.

Kubiak spent 2024 as the New Orleans Saints’ offensive coordinator.

SKIING

Swiss star Lara Gut-Behrami has finally found a way back to winning ways, with next month’s world championships looming.

The defending overall World Cup champion overcame challenging course conditions to win the last super-G before the worlds for her first victory of the season, while Lindsey Vonn placed 13th at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Gut-Behrami mastered the tricky turns in the middle part of the Kandahar course to earn career win No. 46, which put her in joint fifth place on the all-time female winners list.

The worlds take place in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria on Feb. 4-16. The first individual race is the women’s super-G on Feb. 6.

Gut-Behrami was 0.35 seconds faster than Kajsa Vickhoff Lie of Norway, who captured her first of eight career podiums at a super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen four years ago.

Federica Brignone was three-hundredths further back in third, a day after the Italian won the downhill on the same hill.

Olympic champion Clement Noel won his fourth World Cup slalom of the season, triumphing after first-run leaders Timon Haugan and Steven Amiez both faltered on one of the most challenging courses on the circuit in Kitzbuehel, Austria.

Noel climbed from fourth position to win the race, 0.09 seconds ahead of Alex Vinatzer of Italy while Lucas Pinheiro Braathen was 0.19 behind in third.

SOCCER

Women’s soccer has its first million-dollar player after United States defender Naomi Girma moved from San Diego Wave to Chelsea.

Chelsea announced the signing of Girma, 24, without disclosing the fee but The Athletic and the BBC were among those reporting the English champions have spent 900,000 pounds ($1.1 million) on the transfer.

That surpasses the world-record fee of $788,000 that Bay FC paid to sign Zambia striker Rachael Kundananji from Madrid CFF last year.

GOLF

Spaniard Alejandro del Rey claimed his first European tour title in impressive fashion by shooting a third straight 6-under 66 to win the Ras Al Khaimah (UAE) Championship by four strokes.