• Kelsey Plum received a comically small trophy after winning 2022 WNBA All-Star MVP.
  • Weeks later, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert trolled Plum by gifting her with an even smaller trophy.
  • "Cathy thought she got jokes," Plum said, adding: "I was thinking it was going to be a significant trophy."

WNBA superstar Kelsey Plum received a comically tiny trophy for winning MVP of the 2022 All-Star Game.

Fans and players alike — including Plum's own teammates — mocked the Tiffany & Co. cup's small stature and poked fun at the way WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert seemingly tried to help Plum hold up the sterling silver trophy despite its size.

WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert (left) helps Plum lift her All-Star Game MVP trophy. Foto: Kena Krutsinger/NBAE via Getty Images

The league's top brass apparently caught wind of the stir Plum's award caused on social media. So after the point guard and her Las Vegas Aces won the 2022 Commissioner's Cup championship Tuesday night — roughly two weeks removed from the All-Star Game and its trophy-fueled furor — Engelbert decided to get in on the joke.

As Plum and company celebrated their 93-83 road win over the Chicago Sky, the WNBA boss approached the team with a rather large Tiffany Blue box in tow. The Aces players cheered, then hushed, as Engelbert placed the box in Plum's hands.

But once their teammate took off the lid, they erupted in hysterics; inside was an even smaller trophy than the one Plum received a few weeks earlier.

 "Cathy's got jokes," Plum shouted over the laughter.

"It was funny. Honestly, when she handed me the box and I opened it, I was thinking it was going to be a significant trophy," Plum explained during the postgame press conference. "Then it was smaller than the original one, which was already like microscopic.

"She said the other one is on back order, which is just —," she added, then teammate Chelsea Gray chimed in with: "Shipping and handling."

In addition to her new — very petite — hardware, Plum returned from the Commissioner's Cup with an extra $30,000 in her pocket. She's not sure how she'll spend it just yet, she said after the game, but perhaps the prize money is enough to add a larger trophy to her mantle.

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