The fabulous (and athletic) life of pro sports power couple Kelsey Plum and Darren Waller

Plum is a star guard in the WNBA. Five years after the San Antonio Stars selected the prolific scorer with the first overall pick of that year's WNBA Draft, Plum helped the franchise — now known as the Las Vegas Aces — win their first-ever championship.

Waller, meanwhile, is one of the most talented tight ends in the entire NFL. First drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in 2015, the 6-foot-6 star played three years in Maryland before joining the Oakland-turned-Las Vegas Raiders. He's now a member of the New York Giants.

Plum and Waller presumably met at some point after the Raiders relocated to Las Vegas, though it's not public knowledge at this point.

The couple has kept much of their relationship under wraps. As late as a few weeks before their wedding, the pair were not officially confirmed to be romantically involved.

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Waller and Plum were spotted at an All Elite Wrestling event in May 2022 in what may have been their first public showing as a couple.

In addition to appearing at each other's games, the couple attended the inaugural IX Awards together at Las Vegas' Allegiant Stadium in June 2022.

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Waller was spotted using his cell phone to film from the back of the stage as Plum made a speech to the raucous crowd. 

Plum threw out the first pitch that night at Petco Park. Her hometown team beat the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers 2-1 to take a 2-1 lead in the National League Division Series.

Though many suspected that Plum and Waller were dating by the time 2023 came around, the duo had not confirmed their relationship publicly. Very few people beyond their close friends and family knew they were planning a wedding — one they had no intention of telling fans about until well after they said "I do."

Waller was reportedly upset with his then-head coach for publicizing what had been, up to that point, a secret wedding. It made matters worse, according to The Athletic's Vic Tafur, that the Las Vegas Review-Journal then ran a story using McDaniels as its source.

Plum and Waller said "I do" in the idyllic, woodsy setting of GreenGale Farms in Las Vegas. They partied with family and friends before jetting off to the tropics for their honeymoon.

A mere 10 days after he and Plum officially became husband and wife, Waller was shipped across the country to join Daniel Jones and Saquon Barkley in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

"I did not see this coming," Waller said in his introductory press conference with the Giants. "I was getting ready to just do everything I could to make myself available for the Raiders and get ready for everything that was going to start in mid-April."

"It caught me off guard, but it's the nature of the business," he added.

When former NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III joked on Twitter that McDaniels "is NOT a romantic" for making the trade right after Waller got hitched, Plum replied in jest that the move stemmed from the fact that the coach "wasn't invited to the wedding lol."

Shortly after the trade was announced, Plum posted "we're so excited, NY let's get it," on her Instagram story. And in his introductory press conference with the Giants, Waller expressed gratitude to his wife.

"She supports me and wants to see me shine to my ultimate potential as a player while I still have the opportunity, so I'm grateful to have her support," he said. "And we're going to do whatever it takes to remain strong together, whatever the distance looks like, the timing of it."

"I'm grateful to have somebody that understands how things work in an industry like this, and we just go forward and make the best of it what we can," he added.

Plum will be expected to report to Las Vegas to rejoin the reigning champions at the end of April, with the WNBA regular season tipping off in mid-May and extending into the fall.

Waller, meanwhile, will have until the end of July before he's expected in New York for training camp. His season will run through the new year and, should the Giants make the playoffs, could stretch all the way to February.

Plus, the Giants will head out to Las Vegas to face Waller's former team, the Raiders, at some point during the 2023 season. And Plum and her Aces will head to Brooklyn to face the new-look New York Liberty on two separate occasions in August. 

The massive contract gave Waller $17 million in average annual salary, but he brings in additional income through several ventures tangential to and outside of his football career.

Waller works with brands like Pepsi, Snickers, Gilette, Icy Hot, USAA, and more.

With a great-grandfather who pioneered modern jazz — and composed two Grammy Hall of Fame songs in "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Honeysuckle Rose" — Waller was destined to find a foothold in music, too. The tight end doubles as a music producer, though, unlike his great grandpa Fats, Waller's preferred genre is hip-hop.

He's dropped two albums — "Delusions of Clarity" and "Walking Miracle" — since 2021 and told Andscape, "Music provides such a balance from the football."

He also said music was "definitely a part of my healing process."

Waller began using Oxycontin at just 15 years old. As he got older, he grew more dependent on opioids and various other substances — alcohol, cocaine, and an assortment of pills.

"I was spending like almost $100 on pills a day towards the very end of my using," Waller told The New York Post.

In 2017 — three years into his NFL career and just a few months after he was suspended from play for a year for breaking the league's substance abuse policy — Waller overdosed while sitting in his parked car. The near-death incident was a "turning point" for the then-24-year-old, he told the Las Vegas Sun.

Waller went to rehab, got a fresh start with the Raiders, and has maintained his sobriety. And in the years since, he's founded "The Darren Waller Foundation" to help youth "avoid and overcome addiction to drugs and alcohol and support youth and their families during their recovery and treatment journey."

Instead of the photos of flashy cars, massive homes, designer clothes, and luxury vacations featured on many top professional athletes' Instagram pages, Waller's profile mostly shows photos of the 6-foot-6 star practicing yoga and spending time in nature.

He spends lots of his free time promoting his foundation and spreading motivational messages — including through his podcast, "Comeback Stories." He co-hosts the show with "international yoga instructor, mindfulness teacher, and personal development coach" Donny Starkins, per the show's landing page.

Just a week after Plum earned MVP honors at the 2022 WNBA All-Star Game, she and the Aces agreed to a contract extension to keep her in Vegas through the 2024 season.

Though the team didn't disclose the exact terms of the deal, Her Hoops Stats reports that she'll make $200,000 in base salary each of the next two years. Spotrac says that figure makes Plum the 21st highest-paid player in the WNBA.

Since leaving the Washington Huskies as the top scorer in Division-I women's college basketball history, Plum has landed many lucrative partnerships off the court. She's recently signed a deal to become one of the faces of Under Armour and even appeared in a commercial alongside Steph Curry and South Carolina's women's basketball team.

Plum also starred in a State Farm ad alongside JJ Redick that ran throughout March Madness. Additionally, she's an ambassador for fashion brand GSTQ, Google, American Express, and others.

Sure, she works with an athlete stylist and often has a designer bag in-hand during her pre-game tunnel walks, but Plum doesn't appear to be a huge spender, either. Outside of ads and basketball content, Plum's Instagram mostly features images of the star spending time outside, enjoying the company of family and friends, spreading positivity, or giving back.

The pressures that come with fame and fortune are a lot to bear for anyone — especially when you're married to another person with similar stressors. But Plum and Waller have managed to find a mutual understanding in one another, and they both seem to value balance and groundedness above all else.