Kelsey Plum of the Las Vegas Aces gave a phenomenal performance at the 2022 WNBA All-Star Game last weekend, finishing the contest with a record-tying 30 points that helped Team Wilson to a 134-112 win over Team Stewart. Plum was named the 2022 All-Star MVP for her offensive explosion, an award that comes with a trophy to commemorate her accomplishment.
That is a small trophy. Actually, it's not even a small trophy. It's a tiny trophy. It's a trophy so tiny that you wouldn't even give it to high school athletes.
That's barely a Little League trophy! And yet it was the trophy the WNBA gave to Plum on live television, without a hint of irony or any awareness of how it was going to look when a fully grown adult athlete was given a trophy that's the size of a jar of mayonnaise.The NBA’s new Kobe Bryant All-Star Game MVP trophy – a four-level design honoring the late icon’s Nos. 8 and 24, 18 All-Star appearances, four ASG MVPs, USA Basketball No.
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