The Phoenix Mercury agreed to acquire Kelsey Plum from the Los Angeles Sparks late Saturday night, hours before Sunday afternoon’s trade deadline. Going the other way are guard Monique Akoa Makani, a 2027 first-round pick, and a 2028 second-round pick. Shams Charania and Kendra Andrews of ESPN first reported it. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/NBAE via...
Keep track of the WNBA’s wheeling and dealing heading into its transactional freeze. These buzzer-beaters will come not on the WNBA floors but rather on the transactional ledger, engineered by the front office point guards. The 2026 WNBA trade deadline arrives this weekend, as any bartering must be done by 3 p.m. ET on Sunday...
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Russian state hackers are using a maximum-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook’s Exchange Server to backdoor unpatched machines and steal credentials and other confidential information from them, security researchers said Thursday. The attacks are coming from TA488, a tracking name for a group working on behalf of the Kremlin, Proofpoint researchers said Thursday. Proofpoint and the...
Two WNBA teams can absorb Kelsey Plum’s $999,999 salary outright, and one of them is the 11-17 Portland Fire. Everyone else has to send salary back to the Los Angeles Sparks with 17 games left in the regular season. (Photo by Noah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images) The deadline passes at 3 p.m. ET Sunday. Marisa...