WNBA guard chips her tooth in painful scene while diving for loose ball

WNBA defender Jade Melbourne was caught up successful a achy acquisition during her crippled connected Friday nighttime during a crippled betwixt nan Seattle Storm and Golden State Valkyries.

Valkyries defender Veronica Burton tried to dribble disconnected nan surface and astir Melbourne. The Storm defender past dove for nan loose ball. Burton landed connected apical of her. Melbourne’s look deed nan tribunal and she chipped her tooth successful nan process.

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Seattle Storm defender Jade Melbourne looks connected aft chipping a bony successful half during a WNBA crippled against nan Golden State Valkyries successful Seattle connected May 8, 2026. (Lindsey Wasson/AP)

Melbourne’s Storm teammates checked connected her to make judge she was OK. She walked to nan chair smiling but handed her coaches portion of her tooth.

Melbourne was called for a foul connected nan play. Golden State was starring 43-39 astatine that constituent and hung connected for nan 91-80 victory.

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Seattle Storm defender Jade Melbourne holds retired half of her bony that was knocked retired during a collision pinch Golden State Valkyries defender Veronica Burton successful Seattle connected May 8, 2026. (Lindsey Wasson/AP)

Burton vanished pinch 16 points connected 5-of-13 shooting. Janelle Salaun added a team-high 20 points disconnected nan bench. Kaitlyn Chen posted 14 points disconnected nan chair arsenic well.

Seattle’s scoring was led by Dominique Malonga, who had 21. Zia Cooke added 15 points.

Melbourne vanished pinch 13 points. She’s successful her 4th afloat play successful nan WNBA. Seattle initially drafted her successful nan 3rd information of nan 2022 draught retired of Australia. She didn’t play successful 2022 and made her first quality for nan Storm successful 2023.

Seattle Storm defender Jade Melbourne hands a portion of her bony to a unit personnel aft it chipped during a collision against nan Golden State Valkyries successful Seattle connected May 8, 2026. (Lindsey Wasson/AP)

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She played nan past 2 seasons for nan Washington Mystics earlier joining nan Storm again earlier 2026. Last season, she averaged 5.9 points per crippled successful 43 appearances.