Aubrey Plaza seen on crutches after nasty basketball injury during WNBA All-Star weekend

Aubrey Plaza was seen using crutches after suffering a torn ACL at the WNBA 2024 All-Star weekend in Phoenix, Arizona.

The Parks and Recreation star , 40, was sitting courtside at the basketball game on Sunday (July 21), which saw team WNBA defeat Team USA by eight points with a score of 117-109.

During the game, the camera panned to show Plaza sitting beside soccer star Megan Rapinoe and ex-WNBA player Sue Bird, the latter of whom was shown tying Plaza’s shoe.

Sports commentator Ryan Ruocco announced: “I feel for Aubrey Plaza. She came this weekend with a healthy knee. She’s leaving with a torn ACL, thanks to a hardy game of knockout at the Mercury practice facility.”

Knockout is a basketball game that sees players competing to make a basket before the person behind them does.

In snapshots from the weekend posted on Instagram, Plaza can be seen icing her knee, having it checked out by a trainer and using a pair of crutches.

“@wnba ALL STAR WEEKEND. How it started…how it went… Nothing can stop us!” she wrote. “Thank you @wnba for hosting such an amazing weekend and taking such good care of me and my busted knee. Such a great game. See you in Paris (no).”

The Independent has contacted Plaza’s representative for an update.

In a subsequent post, Plaza shared more photos from the weekend, including one of her giving a fistbump to superstar rookie Caitlin Clark.

This isn’t the first time Plaza has torn her ACL – an injury characterized by a tear or sprain in the knee’s anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) – while playing basketball.

The White Lotus actor reportedly sprained her ACL during a women’s recreational basketball game in Los Angeles, where she said she disguised herself so she could play on her sister Natalie’s team.

“And then, in the middle of the game, I went up for a shot and tore my ACL on the court in a wig,” Plaza explained on an episode of Bird and Rapinoe’s A Touch More podcast. “That’s kind of like the worst-case scenario because I was trying to go undercover, and I just snapped my knee in half, basically.”

Sunday’s game saw rookies Angel Reese and Clark lead their Team WNBA to victory, while Dallas Wings player Arike Ogunbowale won WNBA All-Star Game MVP.