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Do we expect her to stay with Phoenix long term? Yeah, Malika, I'm told that Kelsey Plum does plan on going through the free agency process as, you know, originally planned as free agents do. I'm also told this doesn't mean that Phoenix is out of the picture. If they are a team that wants to try to court her during the free agency process, make their pitch, try to bring her back, she will be all ears. However, she is still going to take calls from other teams that may reach out to her during that time. So, you know, that was kind of a little bit of a risk, we'll say, if we want to call that, for the Phoenix Mercury to go after someone with just a couple really months left on her contract. However, with a player like Kelsey, they're hoping that she can help them make their push to creep into these WNBA playoffs. Yeah, there are a couple games back right now. Their work is cut out for them. But you know what? You got to take a swing. Otherwise, you're not going to get rewarded. So let's go to the short view now. The Mercury, they are in Chicago. They are facing the sky. Could we see Plum return? and we haven't seen her in a while as she's been dealing with that leg injury. Yeah, she hasn't played since June, and right now she's listed as questionable on the injury report, and I'm told it's still not 100% either way if she's going to play or if she's not going to play. But she said, this was before she was traded, of course, she said last week I plan on playing on Sunday, which is when the Sparks were scheduled to play their next game. Of course, she was traded on Saturday, so she didn't get to play. But we'll take that as saying she is feeling good in her body. You know, she's feeling good from the recovery of that leg injury. However, whenever you get traded to a new team, you guys know this. You have to go through a couple extra physicals, get checked out by these team doctors in Phoenix, and then they'll make their determination if she's good to go. But Malika, she also is scheduled to speak today, 3.30 Pacific, in Chicago for her introductory press conference with GM Nick Uren. So I think that's going to be really interesting to hear how she's feeling and then also her outlook on this team. Yeah.