Kelsey Plum

—Garrett Rutledge

WNBA STAR Kingmakers No. 1 Persona Toro Kelsey Plum has one of the most accomplished resumes in women’s basketball: Olympic gold medalist; one of college basketball’s all-time leading scorers; first pick in the 2017 WNBA draft; All-WNBA First Team in 2022. But if you ask the 29-year-old guard for the Las Vegas Aces, none of it compares with winning a WNBA championship, something her team has now done in back-to-back seasons—and it’s how she got into cigars. Despite never having had a smoke, Plum used cigars to motivate the Aces during their 2022 championship run. “I told all my teammates, ‘Guys, if we win this, I’m smoking the cigar.’ ” When she did, the pictures of Plum lighting up went viral on social media. “Cigars have fortunately become a special tradition,” says Plum. Another…

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